Katharine Hepburn Quotes
Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.

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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Five of my father's seven siblings made their bones as engineers or technologists, and some of his best buddies - David Woods, Elijah Kent, Weldon Staton - carved out successful engineering careers at Langley.
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People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know?
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I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.
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I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.