Blase J. Cupich Quotes
Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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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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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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The success of 'Dhruva' has given me more satisfaction than any of my previous hits, simply because the audience accepted the film even though it was experimental. I really hope this kind of acceptance makes experimental cinema the new mainstream cinema.
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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wouldn't be that many novels written because everyone feeds off everybody else.
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No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
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Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.
