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'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 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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I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Time is on my side, yes it is.
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The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character.
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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.
