Eartha Kitt Quotes

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Bad
  • Like
  • Sophisticated

• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Afraid
  • Expression
  • Cotton

• We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Free
  • Segregation
  • Cotton

• The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

  

  James Gray
  • Movie
  • Ego
  • Blow

• I don't harbor any anti-male feeling in my heart.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

  

  James J. Gibson
  • Trying
  • Space
  • Color

• I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it's Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, 'Star Wars.' And I'm very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Technology

• My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Friend

• I think my husband and dad were both very happy that I had a baby boy, to get some testosterone in the family, because there are a lot of girls. It's not a perfect family, but it's a strong family. The nice thing is how the different ages interact.

  

  Jade Jagger
  • Different
  • Family
  • Happy

• It's a proud tradition we have of a diverse representation from the Maryland congressional delegation.

  

  Kathy Szeliga
  • Proud

• I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.

  

  SZA
  • Moon
  • Pisces

• Given the rapid rate of change, the old paradigm of one-off education followed by a career will no longer work: life-long learning is a must, and it is up to governments and employers to invest in training and for employees to commit to constantly update their skill set.

  

  Alain Dehaze
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • People
  • Good

• When we see what the universe has to show us, we can go no further.

  

  John C. Mather
  • Universe

• I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.

  

  Peter Beard

• I prefer 100 per cent cotton Ts. They are kinder to lumps and bumps than figure-hugging stretchy Lycra ones and feel nicer against the skin. Extra-long-sleeved T-shirts are a lifesaver for me. I wear them either underneath a shirt with the sleeve pulled out of the cuff, or underneath gypsy tops, tunic tops and waistcoats.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Long
  • Gypsy
  • Cotton

• I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Approach

• Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Dare

• Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Color
  • Folks
  • Cotton

• Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

  

  Willis Harman
  • Mind
  • Vision
  • Sophisticated

• When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about sex.

  

  Dale Bumpers
  • Sex

• No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together out of my mind. I can't do it because it really happened, they are part of my life, and there is no way I can just erase them. That would be the same as erasing my own self.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Forget
  • Self
  • Reasons

• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Guardian
  • Philosophic

• In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Sophisticated
  • Cotton