Blase J. Cupich Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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But I think we need the international market.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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I have spent my entire life living in a zoo, which is pretty crazy. Not many kids get to say that, and it took me until I was about three years old to realize that we didn't just come to the zoo every day, that we actually lived here.
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You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
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I don't want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
