Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith -
If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
L'Wren Scott -
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin -
In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
Adam Mansbach
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter -
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Carlos Fuentes -
Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
Samantha Power -
Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
Said Nursi -
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman -
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Barbara Jordan
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
Carine Roitfeld -
Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
P. T. Barnum -
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
Samuel Johnson -
Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
Walt Kelly -
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks
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Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
Arthur C. Clarke -
I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.
Daniel Sharman -
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
Bentley Little -
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.
Rainbow Rowell -
I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.
Kirsten Prout -
I was considered an ugly duckling.
Eartha Kitt