Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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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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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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Dear brothers and sisters, I have often thought of how the Church may render more clear her mission to be a witness to mercy; and we have to make this journey. It is a journey which begins with spiritual conversion. Therefore, I have decided to announce an Extraordinary Jubilee which has at its centre the mercy of God. It will be a Holy Year of Mercy.
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Catechesis, preaching, and passing on the faith must not only be about educating the members of our communities in the content of our tradition. This is important, but it must equally be about developing their spiritual sensitivity to the ways God manifests His presence and action in the world.
