I used to teach dance lessons.
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 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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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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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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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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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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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 don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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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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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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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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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 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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