Harvey Fierstein Quotes

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

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• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Broadway

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Doing
  • Cold

• When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• If you don't like me, it's your problem.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • You
  • Me
  • Problem

• I do movies I would go to see.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movies
  • See
  • Go

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• I know there is a difference between adaption and evolution.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Know
  • Difference
  • Evolution

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

  

  Joel Salatin

• Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Question

• Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Good

• My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Job
  • Father

• It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Live

• I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • People
  • American
  • Fun

• I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Different
  • Art

• There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• When we work with nature instead of trying to impose our will, the solution is often found within the problem.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Problem
  • Found
  • Solutions

• It's not Cam's fault," Bex told her. "We rigged her bed so that if she gets up, I get an electric shock." "Liz designed it," Macey said, and Bex shrugged "We told you we were taking precautions." Of course. Because at Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".

  

  Ally Carter
  • Fault
  • Therapy
  • Precautions

• As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Book
  • Healing
  • Divine

• Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Friendships
  • Therapy