Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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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 woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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I’m an atheist, and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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