Blase J. Cupich Quotes
I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I have been helped over and over by wonderful men and women in my career. Men help each other all the time, and that kind of inclusion among women can create similar success.
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We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.
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I have very mixed feelings about big corporations. Oftentimes, they're more troublesome than not.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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I am never bored in my ministry because I continually see the impact of God in people's lives.
