Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell children that the world doesn't really care about you. You have to fight to be heard.
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The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.
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We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
