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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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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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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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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America has gone crazy with greed. I really have to say that.
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Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.
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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.