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.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
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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 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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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.
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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 are the only person you can actually change.
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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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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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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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