Cate Blanchett Quotes

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

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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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• 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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• I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'

  

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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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• 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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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  

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• The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

  

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• When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Decision
  • Vocation