Harvey Fierstein Quotes
My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
Quotes to Explore
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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I don't like violence.
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Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.
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Equality and separation cannot exist in the same space.
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Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends and family, and we make them scream and yell at us so we can hear! But I think it's better to take responsibility and wear hearing aids!
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You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
