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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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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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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A lot of [George Saunders] early stories now feel prophetic. Take the recent election [of Donald Trump]. Historians in 100 years might write about it as being the first internet election, in which what happened was actually an expression in the real world of a virtual reality. And you've been writing about that subject for a while.
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I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.
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Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
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I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by the family that I came from, the religion that I had, that type of thing.
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When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.
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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.
