Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
EARTHA KITTIn the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me ‘yellow gal.’ I was caught in between both sides – nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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