Harvey Fierstein Quotes

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

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  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.

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  Positive, Prayer, Life Changing

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• Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion

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  Mean, Thinking, Yesterday

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• How time flies when you're doin all the talking.

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  Talking, Time Flies, How Time Flies

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

  Harvey Fierstein

  Therapy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

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  Moving, World, Wonderful

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• Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

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  Art, Inspire, Educate

  "Reimagining the Story of Newsies headshot" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Never be bullied into silence.

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  Inspirational, Silence, Lgbt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

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  Time Will Tell

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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.

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  Believe, Together, Rooms

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• Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

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  People, Care, Want

  "Meditation Isn’t Enough: A Buddhist Perspective on Suicide" by Lodro Rinzler, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2014.

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• The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Believe, Love You, Gay

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• How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

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  Hate, Self, Loathing

  "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• Is a gay play a play that has sex with other plays?

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  Sex, Gay, Play

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

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  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• There's nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can't give me those two things has no place in my life.

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  Gay, Two, Giving

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• To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

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  Lucky

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• Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

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  Ideas, Plot, Stories

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. September 25, 2012.

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• If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

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  Inspirational, Commitment, Deny

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• 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.

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  African American, President, Prejudice

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don’t change governments during war.

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  War, Government, People

  "Let the Witch Hunt Begin" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

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  Queens, Humorous, Oil

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• I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Reading

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• CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.

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  Stars, Gay, Doors

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