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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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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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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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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If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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We should have no immigration at all for a certain time. Then we can look again.
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
