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.
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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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In the 1980s, when people were just beginning to talk about AIDS, there were just a few categories of those who were at high risk: homosexuals, hemophiliacs, heroin addicts, and Haitians. We were the only ones identified by nationality.
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I think people are really starting to rebel against that. And I think there's going to be more and more gray areas. Hopefully that means we'll see more stories with characters that could be interchangeable with men.
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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.
