Cate Blanchett Quotes

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

Cate Blanchett

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Know
  • Sound

• Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Television
  • Invention

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Road

• The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Student

• A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Spiritual
  • Criticism

• He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Important
  • Like
  • Thinks

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

  

  Veronica Webb
  • People
  • Game
  • Control

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Suffering
  • Drinking
  • Drunk

• If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.

  

  Ben Klassen
  • Defending
  • White Race
  • Preserving

• Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Happiness
  • Learned
  • Fleeting