Harvey Fierstein Quotes
There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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Having been a journalist for almost 20 years and then becoming a politician has definitely been an interesting and enriching experience for me.
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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Two important features in the modern development of economics are the application of mathematics to abstract economic reasoning... and the attempt at placing economics on a numerical and experimental basis by an intensive study of economic statistics.
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I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.
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There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.
