Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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Writers are so important.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.
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I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
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I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I was in a band till I was about 17; then I went to television, and I spent seven years doing that. When I came to Seattle, I started to audition for things. The passion's always there, and that's what's been the hard thing: to fit that passion into a normal life. You can't do it. You can't have a normal life and pursue this dream.
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Big doors swing on little hinges.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.
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Those who do not think religious organizations should have an opinion on climate change misunderstand the former and the moral dimension of the latter.
