"I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me."

-- Eartha Kitt

“A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.”
“Believers are often thought of as people who have some kind of private conviction or repudiation of something, whereas "the faithful" refers to a relationship, which was also incidentally the earlier sense of "faith" in premodern, preliberal Christianity. This is not to say, incidentally, that "faith" refers simply to external behavior as opposed to internal belief but that it refers to an act.”
“What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.”
“I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.”
“Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.”
“Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.”
“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

Source : "Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.
“My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled.”

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