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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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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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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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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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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The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
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Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
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Politicians always do a two-step, depending on what their district politics looks like.
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The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.
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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.
