Eartha Kitt Quotes
I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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When things look dark, void, and altogether hopeless to the colored youth of America..., when they need an inspiring thought that should urge them onward to the road of achievement despite forbidding obstacles, they will only need to read of and reflect upon the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath.
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People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
