Blase J. Cupich Quotes
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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There is always pressure in football.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
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I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
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We're being very careful that we don't send a spacecraft to Mars with the intention of detecting Martian life - and find out that we detected the Earth life that we took with us.
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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
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We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing new to us. This is not a new venture for us. It's who we are and have been from the very beginning of the history of the Catholic Church in this country.
