Eartha Kitt Quotes
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
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If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
