Cate Blanchett Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Relying on someone else to be successful only ties you down and limits you.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
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My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.
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I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
