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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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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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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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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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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Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
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When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.
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'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
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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.
