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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.

Katharine Hepburn

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Attraction Fast Move Myself
It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.
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Electricity Energy Kind Myself
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Independent Life Move Yourself
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Atheist Believe Each Other Exception Myself People
If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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Hands Help Independent Yourself
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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Arrogant Bold Fear Myself Thinking
If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Build Enough Old Survive Yourself
Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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Car Fun Myself Old Terrible
Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That’s what I’ve done.
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Children Decision Myself Woman
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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Myself People Strong Thinking Tough Tremble Young
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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Interest Person Yourself
The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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Ambition Average Hollywood Marriage Standard
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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Fascination Love Wisdom Woman
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

God Justice Myself See Yourself
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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Art Goodness Myself People Secret
I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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Destroy Hell Myself Thinking Work
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Age Feeling Myself Old Romance
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Age Attraction Decoration Myself Past Time
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.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Mistake Regret Stupidity Yourself
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 HEPBURN

Connection Expectation Generosity Love Yourself
I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Death Myself Sleep
Our Constitution was not intended to be used by … any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.
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Belief Constitution Ourselves Personal
I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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Interest Myself Photograph
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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Big Home Interest Job Mom Myself Terrible
The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Misery Money Myself Time
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Admire Man Sacrifice Yourself
What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURN

Library Ourselves World

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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