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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Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
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Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.
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The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run for office, that may be the one that comes back and haunts me.
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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.
