As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
KATHARINE HEPBURNI think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
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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 don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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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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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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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.
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
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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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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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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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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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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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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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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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