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.
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 never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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I am the original ‘Material Girl.’
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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 the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it’s a part of live entertainment.
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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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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In the ’50s, critics used to say I had a ‘dangerous’ act.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that’s what they’ve always cast me as.
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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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If you’re looking for immediate rewards, you’re only looking for the money.
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