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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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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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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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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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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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
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I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'
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Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
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When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
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April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
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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.
