Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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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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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I try to do my best.
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But I think we need the international market.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.
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My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.
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'You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.'
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That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
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Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
