"The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world."

-- William Halsey

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“No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.”
“How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.”

Source : "Don’t End the War on Terror" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
“One time I was singing along with a boy that looked like me in the crowd and he pushed away the mic and started making out with me and accidently bit my lip and I had to get stitches.”
“My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.”
“Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.”
“He (Shoeless Joe Jackson) was the finest natural hitter in the history of the game.”
“It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.”
“You want the audience to be uncomfortable.”

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