Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
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Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.
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To stay on the map you've got to keep showing up.
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Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.
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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
