Blase J. Cupich Quotes
We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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If you want to be led by the Spirit of God, then devote yourself to the Word of God.
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I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future.
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When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.
