In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
EARTHA KITTJewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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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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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it’s fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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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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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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Don’t depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don’t make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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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 am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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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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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 a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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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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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I wouldn’t bother to describe me. I’m Eartha Kitt.
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