"I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger."

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Source : FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Sep 14, 2011

Eartha Kitt

#Stronger Quotes #Used Quotes #Thrown Quotes

“I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.”
“None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.”
“The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.”
“A Republican Congressman, Rep. Chris Lee, was caught flirting with a woman trolling for dates on Craigslist and sent her a shirtless photo of himself. He lied about his age and his marital status. He said he was 39 and divorced. He's 46 and married, though being a Republican congressman, I'm guessing he's really 60 and gay.”
“And see the peaceful trees extend their myriad leaves in leisured dance- they bear the weight of sky and cloud upon the fountain of their veins.”
“Blogging is best learned by blogging...and by reading other bloggers.”
“When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.”
“I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.

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