You can’t change the music of your soul.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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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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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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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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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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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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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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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 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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong but don’t just avoid.
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If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in 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 politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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