Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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I think everyone is an opportunist if they have an opportunity.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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.
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I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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