Harvey Fierstein Quotes
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Quotes to Explore
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
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I have actually been very fortunate that I've met a lot of really wonderful straight men in my life - and a lot of really wonderful gay men in my life.
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I'm a patient person. I can wait for my prince charming.
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The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.
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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection Empörung leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on 'institutions.'
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If you like somebody's work - just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people came and asked me for my autograph - and it's creepy. What I did is read everything they published first... and correct them. That's what they really want. Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.
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My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
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Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
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You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
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Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
