Blase J. Cupich Quotes
There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.
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For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.
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I've been around him 10 years with him. You never ever know what he's going to so you can expect anything.
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Once you're comfortable with the way that you're dressing, you express yourself a lot more, and you're just able to have a lot more fun.
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“If I am going to invest in Russian gas, I should have a clear understanding that I can bring that gas to market.
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There is a synergy between the way Croatians approach life and the way Jesuits do. Croatians are very real about situations. We don't gloss over things. If there are issues to deal with, you deal with them.
