The time to make up your mind about people is never.
KATHARINE HEPBURNChildren need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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 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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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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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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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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 was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
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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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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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Love fattens on smooth words.
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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 care WHAT the say about me, as long as it’s not the truth.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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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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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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