Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I really like performing for people.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
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I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
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We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.
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Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.
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When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.
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Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can't just show up and get handed matches.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
