"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.“
-Harvey Fierstein
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"In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky."
-Harvey Fierstein
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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."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later."
-Harvey Fierstein
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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