I’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
EARTHA KITTThe public has become my fairy godmother.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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We’re not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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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’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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My house was bugged. They couldn’t find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don’t like some of the things the government is doing.
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I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don’t know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.
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The audience has always been my best director.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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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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