Cate Blanchett Quotes
What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
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I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
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You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
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I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.
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I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes, after just one season. I got used to that. But I found myself choking up a bit at 'OLTL.' It was really hard to say goodbye to those people. It was not the way we wanted to go out.
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What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.
