Eartha Kitt Quotes

• The public has become my fairy godmother.

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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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• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

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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 punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

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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 am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

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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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• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

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• I used to teach dance lessons.

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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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• I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.

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Eartha Kitt (53)

Birth:	17th January, 1927
Death:	25th December, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actress, Comedian, Dancer, Singer

About

Eartha Mae Kitt was born in North, South Carolina, USA. She was an American actress, singer, dancer, stand-up comedian, and activist, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby", which were both US Top 10 hits. She starred in 1967 as Catwoman, in the third and final season of the television series Batman. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".

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