Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.
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That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes of millions of people who voted for Khatami and called for freedom and justice have been ignored... Why should cultural activities and journalism be so risky in Iran?
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.
