When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe 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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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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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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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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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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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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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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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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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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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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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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Time is the stuff of which life is made.
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