Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
KATHARINE HEPBURNTo live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
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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.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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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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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’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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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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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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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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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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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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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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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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