I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
EARTHA KITTI am the original ‘Material Girl.’
More Eartha Kitt Quotes
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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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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.
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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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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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In essence, I’m a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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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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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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The public has become my fairy godmother.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I used to teach dance lessons.
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I have to keep testing 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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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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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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’m an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.
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I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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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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I don’t think I ever really got interested in theater.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I’m begging for affection.
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