Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
-
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
-
I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.
-
I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
-
Downloading songs is not good.
-
Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
-
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
-
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.
-
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
-
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.
-
Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
-
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
-
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.
-
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!
-
I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
-
If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.
-
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
-
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary sources for the family history, often without knowing it. I think if she'd been a son, she would have been referenced more.
-
I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
-
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.
