The public has become my fairy godmother.
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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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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I was a street dancer.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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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 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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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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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 wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I’m asked, I will answer honestly.
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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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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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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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