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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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Loved people are loving people.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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