Blase J. Cupich Quotes

We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.

Blase J. Cupich

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• I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?

  

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• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

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• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

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• I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

  

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• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

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• Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

  

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• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

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• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

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• My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.

  

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• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

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• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

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• On croit mourir pour la patrie; on meurt pour les industriels.

  

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• There was a long history of people believing there was life on Venus. It was about the same size as Earth. It had clouds. It was commonly believed it was tropical - wet, hot and steamy.

  

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• I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

  

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• We must band together to call for gun-control legislation. We must act in ways that promote the dignity and value of human life.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Life
  • Together
  • Control