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 try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.
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It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
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Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your mind a blank all at once. So in the beginning try to prevent evil or idle thoughts by occupying your mind with the analysis of your own faults, or the contemplation of the Perfect Ones.
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
