Eartha Kitt Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by caste divisions, and mired in poverty; rather, what's envisioned is a vast, unified Hindu empire stretching from Kashmir to the Indian tip at Kanyakumari.
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
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There is always a better way.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
