Katharine Hepburn Quotes

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Katharine Hepburn

• Up
• Age
• Past
• Sex
• Attract
• Bore

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• In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

  

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• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

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• I think I've owned all the models of iPods so far. And these days between my iPod, iPhone and my personal laptop computer, I'm someone who is very, very grateful for all the ways to listen to music and completely switch off from people around me and listen to the music in detail, which is very hard to do if you're in a room with other people.

  

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• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  

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• In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

  

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• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

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• I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

  

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• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

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• Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Up
  • Age
  • Past