Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Islam means peace.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.
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The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school.
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While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.
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When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.
