Katharine Hepburn Quotes

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Katharine Hepburn

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• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

  Walker Stapleton
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• When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

  

  Parker Palmer
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• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
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• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
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• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.

  

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• Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
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• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
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• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
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• The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
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• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

• Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

  

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• Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

  

  Alex Berenson
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• I've never heard anybody [of president's candidates] talk about the poorly educated.

  

  Chris Matthews
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• In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

  

  Andy Grove
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• The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
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  • Work
  • Mistake