Cate Blanchett Quotes
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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.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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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.
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If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
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Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
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There is a positive and personal relationship between the Egyptian people and the Syrian people.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
