Cate Blanchett Quotes

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

Cate Blanchett

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• My style advice to other girls is to be experimental but always have a 'home base' and stick with your comfort style.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Style
  • Advice

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Cool

• There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Life
  • World
  • Women

• I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Know
  • Like
  • Look

• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Goals
  • Based
  • Objectives

• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Journalist

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • Trying
  • Man

• Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Change
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Know
  • Like
  • Meant

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Like

• My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Energy
  • Singing
  • Living

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.

  

  Will Poulter
  • Confidence
  • Actor
  • Gift

• And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.

  

  Andrew Gillum
  • Lives
  • Vote
  • Depend

• Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Gift
  • Precious
  • Itself