"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

#Father Quotes #House Quotes #World Quotes

“It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
“I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.”
“The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.”
“Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.”

Source : "Fictional character: Carol Beldon". "Mrs. Miniver", www.imdb.com. 1942.
“It's funny: I put money into short films, and I put really good actors in it, and I write some stuff that's really funny, and I'll get, like, a million views. But to the right of me, there will be a video of a kitten that falls into a toilet bowl, and it's three seconds long, and it will get 25 million views.”
“In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.”

Source : "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.
“What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life..”
“Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

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