Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I want to have a long career.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I've never been on a date.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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Do you wish to see clearly and be free?
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If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't like that character... It's weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.
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Since we replaced the compulsory military draft with an all-volunteer force in 1973, our nation has been making decisions about wars without worry over who fights them. I sincerely believe that reinstating the draft would compel the American public to have a stake in the wars we fight as a nation.
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My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.
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Once we begin to make our churches safety zones in a military-style approach, we're going to lose something of the character of our places of worship.
