"I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?"

-- Cate Blanchett

#Thinking Quotes #Competition Quotes #Oscars Quotes

“He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.”
“Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
“Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.”
“The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.”

Source : William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.
“Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2016). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.240, Oxford University Press
“This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.”
“Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.”
“This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.”

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