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 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
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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I don’t care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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