Cate Blanchett Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important.
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Kaepernick's protest has been very successful. I really appreciate the fact that he's been giving away money to organisations; he pledged to give away a million dollars, and he's been doing it.
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Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
