I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
EARTHA KITTDr. 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.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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 don’t carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it’s the general public that made me – not any one particular group. So I don’t think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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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 love to tease men with my legs.
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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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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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