Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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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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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don't have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
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You break into my house, I will shoot you. My wife will shoot you and then spend thirty minutes telling you why she shot you.
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I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
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Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
