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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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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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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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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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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Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.
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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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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superior brain I have so far met in the field of foreign politics... so much more dangerous than you imagine because he is so much better a man than you have ever admitted.
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Cowardice is the greatest sin.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
