Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt’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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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Loved people are loving people.
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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 wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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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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Enemies are so stimulating.
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Wouldn’t it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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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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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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Don’t moan, don’t whine, don’t blame. Just get on with it.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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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 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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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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