Cate Blanchett Quotes
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I enjoy my life.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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I thought that I was going to be like this earth mother. When people would complain about being pregnant, I was like, 'What are you talking about? It's incredible! Just enjoy it.'
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The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.
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When I was 16, my dad took me to a DNA conference at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, California, and I was captivated by this way of looking at biology and by the discussions of bits of nucleic acid that could make us sick.
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We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
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I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
