Eartha Kitt Quotes
Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute. In fifty years we shall be ninety-two years old. We intend to work rather hard during those fifty years and accumulate enough to live on without working any more for the next ten years, for we have determined to die at the age of one hundred and two.
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You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.
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We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.
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I've always tried to be very seductive. I want the paintings to draw you in. But I don't want to just glamour you. I want to make an image of the time we live in and reflect it back.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
