Blase J. Cupich Quotes
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I kept listening to albums where I'd hear this very joyful sound - and it was always the glockenspiel. Then I ordered one online, and I figured out how to play it.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.
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To survive is to win.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I like the idea of separation of services. ISPs provide a pipe. Other vendors provide security. Other vendors provide email. When one party controls all the services, it's a 'synergy' for the company, but rarely for the consumer.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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We watched her come with subtle fire And learned feet, Stumbling among the lustful drunk Yet somehow sweet. We saw the crimson leave her cheeks Flame in her eyes; For when a woman lives in awful haste A woman dies. The jests that lit our hours by night And made them gay, Soiled a sweet and ignorant soul And fouled its play.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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Parishes must be the safest places for a child to be.
