Education Commissioner Richard Cate quote: "NCLB is a federal law. Vermont complies with the law. Beyond that, I have no desire, nor will I allow it to drive the education vision of this state."

We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RICHARD CATE

I don't pretend to know how best to draw the absolute line. It's a tough call.
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RICHARD CATE

Most of my years there were only two of us in my grade. So I know something about small schools.
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RICHARD CATE

They're all interesting in their own way. I especially like the interactions with the students.
EDUCATION COMMISSIONER RICHARD CATE

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense...
CATE BLANCHETT

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant ...
CATE BLANCHETT

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a b...
CATE BLANCHETT

I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' wh...
CATE BLANCHETT

I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natura...
CATE BLANCHETT

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's abou...
CATE BLANCHETT

Yes. Reyn is our resident horse master. He has an excellent seat."
I grinned. "I've noticed." CATE TIERNAN

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
HENRY CATE

I always dressed as a man when I was at school. I loved wearing a tie and a shirt, and I was always ...
CATE BLANCHETT

I love 'Annie Hall,' but then I adore 'Hannah and Her Sisters.' Dianne Wiest is amaz...
CATE BLANCHETT

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
CATE BLANCHETT

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, collea...
CATE BLANCHETT

An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.'
CATE BLANCHETT

I look forward to the holiday season every year.
CATE BLANCHETT

I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're l...
CATE BLANCHETT

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you...
CATE BLANCHETT

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with wome...
CATE BLANCHETT

I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how ...
CATE BLANCHETT

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack o...
CATE BLANCHETT

Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.
CATE KENNEDY

You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I&...
CATE BLANCHETT

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.
CATE BLANCHETT

Armani makes a fantastic lip gloss called 'Beige 100.'
CATE BLANCHETT

I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safet...
CATE BLANCHETT

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what chi...
CATE BLANCHETT

I'm not dreaming of any podiums or any medals that I can put around my neck. I'm just focusi...
CATE CAMPBELL

The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
CATE BLANCHETT

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world,...
CATE BLANCHETT

I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
CATE BLANCHETT

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it&#...
CATE BLANCHETT

I admire the work of brilliant actresses such as Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Helen Mirren, who have...
CATE BLANCHETT

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema ...
CATE BLANCHETT

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.
CATE BLANCHETT

A credit score is a snapshot of an exact moment.
CATE WILLIAMS

Being honest with yourself and loved ones about your financial past and future is an early key to su...
CATE WILLIAMS

Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes...
CATE WILLIAMS

Whether you are hoping for an extravagant wedding or a simple ceremony, your special day should be f...
CATE WILLIAMS

Don't forget to revisit your new financial plan several times throughout the year to make sure you a...
CATE WILLIAMS

Understand that while home improvement projects can increase the value and comfort of your home, mos...
CATE WILLIAMS

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of compet...
CATE BLANCHETT

When you play someone as terrifyingly well-known as Katharine Hepburn, it's a team effort.
CATE BLANCHETT

and for casting me. He cast me on instinct, not with any concern to box office, so I thank him etern...
CATE BLANCHETT

You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do...
CATE BLANCHETT

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.
CATE BLANCHETT

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and...
CATE BLANCHETT

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of th...
CATE BLANCHETT

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed...
CATE BLANCHETT

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vague...
CATE BLANCHETT

That's absolutely what Tracy comes to incorporate into her sense of self,
CATE BLANCHETT

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great ent...
CATE BLANCHETT

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationshi...
CATE BLANCHETT

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
CATE BLANCHETT

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a p...
CATE BLANCHETT

I can't imagine what I would be doing if I wasn't swimming. It is what I want to do now; it ...
CATE CAMPBELL

When we were in England last week, people were making parallels between Elizabeth's situation with E...
CATE BLANCHETT

I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, i...
CATE BLANCHETT

I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortless...
CATE BLANCHETT

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and c...
CATE BLANCHETT

Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
CATE BLANCHETT

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a poi...
CATE BLANCHETT

I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
CATE BLANCHETT

For 'Blue Jasmine,' I made a decision not to wear any make up in the last shot of the film, ...
CATE BLANCHETT

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk fall...
CATE BLANCHETT

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.
CATE BLANCHETT

We're installing the base mural, and once we do, we'll sell portrait tiles to replace the tile on th...
CATE ERVIN

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned (and) we should not turn a...
CATE BLANCHETT

As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being...
CATE BLANCHETT

I suppose the more established one gets, you have what's called a reputation, and so you want to...
CATE BLANCHETT

I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?&...
CATE BLANCHETT

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unf...
CATE BLANCHETT

There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you&...
CATE BLANCHETT

due to her fluctuating filming schedule.
CATE BLANCHETT

In every war, there's looting.
CATE BLANCHETT

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.
CATE BLANCHETT

I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN

Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you g...
CATE TIERNAN

Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the deat...
CATE TIERNAN

I read a statistic that in horse racing, the favourite only wins 12 per cent of their races. I'm...
CATE CAMPBELL

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
CATE BLANCHETT

It's terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me...
CATE CAMPBELL

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of m...
CATE BLANCHETT

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventu...
CATE BLANCHETT

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more...
CATE BLANCHETT

I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a directo...
CATE BLANCHETT

I tried hitting some slices too, but I found out that she really likes it when you do that.
CATE STEWART

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life— that great sens...
CATE BLANCHETT

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine,
CATE BLANCHETT

Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.
CATE BLANCHETT

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grand...
CATE BLANCHETT

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.
CATE BLANCHETT

I finally had a honeymoon with my husband in Italy.
CATE BLANCHETT

The faithful often find themselves blindsided. They don't suspect anything because they can't imagin...
CATE HOLAHAN

Every athlete wants to win an Olympic gold medal, and I'd be lying if I said that's not what...
CATE CAMPBELL

I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey...
CATE BLANCHETT

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to...
CATE BLANCHETT

You know you can't lose the point, and you know if you think about losing it, you're going to lose i...
CATE STEWART

I was a little nervous. She's such a good player. I was not very comfortable when I stepped onto the...
CATE STEWART

It's a political group of people. In any situation that can become difficult.
CATE MOYE

It would be like joining any organization that you would take interest in.
CATE MOYE

(Homeowners) get to have some say as to what happens in their part of the neighborhood.
CATE MOYE

It takes a couple weeks to turn the photos into tiles. We're only ordering them in groups of 50.
CATE ERVIN

You can't tell up close (there are eyes), and that's the beauty.
CATE ERVIN

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life that great sense...
CATE BLANCHETT

I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your firs...
CATE BLANCHETT

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from ...
CATE BLANCHETT

I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
CATE BLANCHETT

For me, it's just as important to eat healthy as it is to go out and eat fish and chips with my ...
CATE CAMPBELL

I think our Western society is very much about, 'Tuck your head in; make sure you're safe. D...
CATE BLANCHETT

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really ab...
CATE BLANCHETT

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'...
CATE BLANCHETT

When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particul...
CATE BLANCHETT

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out o...
CATE BLANCHETT

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.
CATE KENNEDY

It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, wh...
CATE CAMPBELL

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
CATE BLANCHETT

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know wha...
CATE BLANCHETT

I cook a mean Sunday lunch. My idea of Heaven is a lunch outside on a beautifully sunny Sunday after...
CATE BLANCHETT

I find that after every win, there is a new surge in motivation because it feels so good. I am addic...
CATE CAMPBELL

I would really have liked to have gone to Broadway with 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' I was pr...
CATE BLANCHETT

The best swimmers are the ones that almost don't try the most... It's just about relaxing an...
CATE CAMPBELL

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change.
CATE BLANCHETT

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
CATE BLANCHETT

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accen...
CATE BLANCHETT

People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Austra...
CATE BLANCHETT

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.
CATE BLANCHETT

I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circum...
CATE BLANCHETT

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.
CATE BLANCHETT

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process...
CATE BLANCHETT

I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.
CATE BLANCHETT

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
CATE BLANCHETT

What we're really hoping is we can challenge other organizations to help.
JAN CATE

—... Ahora, vamos: dibuja un círculo, tan redondo como puedas. Tenía un mal presentimiento acerc...
CATE TIERNAN

Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ...
CATE TIERNAN

A woman's face, naked and unadorned, is as beautiful as the moon, and as mysterious.
CATE TIERNAN

I'm here by choice, I reminded myself. I'm here because I can't bear to be not- here anymore. I'm he...
CATE TIERNAN

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom...
CATE TIERNAN

I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bon...
CATE TIERNAN

Then what's the point of trying if you can't even win?"
"You win in lots of different ways," As...
CATE TIERNAN

My face is not that expressive!
CATE TIERNAN

He gave a hard smile and the oxygen in my lungs evaporated. “We
both know I’m not a gentlem...
CATE TIERNAN

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for...
CATE TIERNAN

I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
CATE TIERNAN

It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stu...
CATE TIERNAN

Please, please be some sex-starved nutcase who wants to kidnap me and make me your love slave, I beg...
CATE TIERNAN

Please, ground, just open up and let me fall into an endless crevasse till I hit the center of the e...
CATE TIERNAN

Over my dead body, I thought. Yes, even immortals use that phrase. It has extra oomph for us.
CATE TIERNAN

Now he was kissing me, not in a scary way, not with hostility, but with warm, seductive intent. In a...
CATE TIERNAN

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for...
CATE TIERNAN

I-just want you. I want you so bad, all the time. I know I shouldn't, I know I can't, I know it's wr...
CATE TIERNAN

As long as I'm enjoying swimming, I will keep swimming.
CATE CAMPBELL

If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a...
CATE CAMPBELL

Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can'...
CATE CAMPBELL

My job isn't to create history; it's to go out there and perform at my best.
CATE CAMPBELL

At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to ...
CATE CAMPBELL

People get caught up in the idea that health is just what you look like and what you eat, but your h...
CATE CAMPBELL

All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
CATE CAMPBELL

My job is to give 100 per cent so that I can walk away completely satisfied with the race I put toge...
CATE CAMPBELL

Every time I reach a major milestone in my career, I expect it to make more of a difference than it ...
CATE CAMPBELL

We've seen, time and again, when people focus on the outcome rather than what needs to be done t...
CATE CAMPBELL

I tend to be that swimmer that doesn't look like she is trying, but is actually dying on the ins...
CATE CAMPBELL

I parade in next to no clothes every day. It's hard not to compare yourself to other people, but...
CATE CAMPBELL

No one likes to get beaten, even if it is to your best friend.
CATE CAMPBELL

I think fathers were put on Earth to embarrass their daughters.
CATE CAMPBELL

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come...
CATE CAMPBELL

Choosing between the 50 m and 100 m is like choosing between your children. I have favourites on dif...
CATE CAMPBELL

I really rely on sleep, and some people call me 'The Bear' for my hibernating.
CATE CAMPBELL

Nothing is static; things always change. The best you can do is change along with them and work with...
CATE TIERNAN

Don't say I never gave you anything," he said. " I gave you the stars. Good night, little sister.
CATE TIERNAN

At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everythin...
CATE TIERNAN

We have a massive loss of human resources in South Africa because the post-school opportunities are ...
EDUCATION MINISTER NALEDI PANDOR

The issue of small rural schools must also be resolved, as must the urgent matter of the 178 schools...
EDUCATION MINISTER NALEDI PANDOR

We have to go ahead with this proactive step to get the full funding for these critical road project...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON

We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the genera...
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

I think given the tenor of the times and the feelings of some people that it was necessary to put th...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN

It seems like what they're playing is tit for tat. And that's not a good game to play. ... Their arg...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I think Martin County protects its communities very well, and we keep the growth at the airport at a...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

When we start talking about so many homes, we start talking about the need for schools, the need for...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I haven't seen or heard anything yet from the developer, but I think it's way too dense. I wonder if...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

From the actual and empirical pieces of evidence [presented here at the Senate committee probe] ther...
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

Thank you for that very very good picture but you know heroes only thrive when they are dead.
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

We've had scandals at every level of government. We need to assure the public that people are hired ...
COMMISSIONER FORREST CLAYPOOL

They're seeking accelerated growth rates and we're trying to maintain our steady minimal growth rate...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

To help strive for zero accidents, workers are often given jackets, shirts or other rewards.
COMMISSIONER DAVID MAPLE

We have very few (complimentary) tickets.
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY

I'm hoping it doesn't escalate from here, but we have to look out for Martin County taxpayers.
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

There should be a transformation and reform in our electoral system starting with the moral fiber of...
COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA

I want to see it stay as objective as possible.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE

Very likely. I would have to say, more than likely there will be some mill levy increase to take car...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH

I can build many roads and bridges, but if I don't build a road or bridge for the future of our chil...
COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA

I have no intention of going to war with anybody, or taking an aggressive posture. This is simply lo...
COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN

We had a wonderful year in 2005 and really turned it around. I say congratulations to the commission...
COMMISSIONER DWAYNE TAYLOR

I've seen too many 12- and 13-year-old boys drive to the beach or the club for lunch with no turn si...
COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN

I know the sheriff and his administration. It sounds like a turf battle, but I'm prejudiced because ...
COMMISSIONER PAUL ELIZONDO

It's a shame millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was spent to sit there and rot. The state reall...
COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI

I guess sooner or later you've got to fish or cut bait. I'll be interested to see what the outcome i...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN

NCLB is a federal law. Vermont complies with the law. Beyond that, I have no desire, nor will I allow it to drive the education vision of this state.

Copied!

Education Commissioner Richard Cate

NCLB is a federal law. Vermont complies with the law. Beyond that, I have no desire, nor will I allow it to drive the education vision of this state.

Education Commissioner Richard Cate

Share:

Related

More Education Commissioner Richard Cate