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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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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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.
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Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
