Charles J. Chaput Quotes
We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.
