Blase J. Cupich Quotes
The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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I don't write letters anymore.
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It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps and operating system category, partly because of the dynamics of owning and controlling the operating system: that gave you enormous power, and I came to see Bill Gates was fierce competitor.
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A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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The Second Amendment was passed in an era when organized police forces were few and citizen militias were useful in maintaining the peace.
