I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
EARTHA KITTI used to teach dance lessons.
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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 fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds.
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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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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 was a street dancer.
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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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Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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You don’t move just because you want to go from this point to that point – the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
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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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Eartha Mae is very shy. She’s scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection.
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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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 a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.
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Dr. 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.
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You don’t have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I’ve always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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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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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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