Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!
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I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
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The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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Gina Gershon was a year ahead of me in college.
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The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.