Eartha Kitt Quotes
I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.
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You know, I think more people should watch women's basketball. It'd do so much for the game.
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'Boldface' is a pilot term, a magic word to describe the procedures that could, in a crisis, save your life. We say that 'boldface is written in blood' because often it's created in response to an accident investigation. It highlights the series of steps that should have been taken to avoid a fatal crash, but weren't.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
