Harvey Fierstein Quotes

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Harvey Fierstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 6, 1954

Topics

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None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.

Joe Namath

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I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.

Jim Brown

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No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

Robert Pozen

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When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Andy Warhol

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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Jean Racine

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Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It's not 'I helped you, now you help me.'

Amanda Knox

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Syria is a problem, but Iran is a bigger problem.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

Judge Reinhold

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No one has any respect for someone who can play a million notes per minute but can't put together a decent tune that someone can sing to or feel some sort of emotion from.

Johnny Marr

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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Deepak Chopra

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Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

David Souter

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Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

Paula Deen

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