Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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I can only be me. I have a hard time being a chameleon as a singer.
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I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
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Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.
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When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
