Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.
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There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.
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What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
