Cate Blanchett Quotes

People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

Cate Blanchett

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• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

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• I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.

  

  Laura Trott
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• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
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• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Believe
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• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• There's a huge impact on national security and intelligence. The new normal is going to be more and more of these hacks, whether it's Target or Home Depot or the Office of Personnel Management or Jennifer Lawrence's nude photos.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

  

  Mahavira
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• If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
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• Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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• There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the vertical plane. That is, no one ever suffers unjustly in terms of his or her relationship with God. As long as we bear the guilt of sin, we cannot protest that God is unjust in allowing us to suffer.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

  

  Edwin Muir
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• During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
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• But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Artist
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• People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Actors
  • Liars
  • Argue