Chiara Lubich Quotes
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
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There's already a lot of active research going on using the Crispr technology to fix diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis or Huntington's disease. They're all diseases that have known genetic causes, and we now have the technology that can repair those mutations to provide, we hope, patients with a normal life.
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Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
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I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.
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When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
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If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to clean energy, I think we have the capacity to build this world not dependent on fossil-fuel. I think it will happen, and it won't destroy economy.
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I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
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It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.
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But, braggart demons, we postpone our end: how could we renounce the display of our freedom, the show of our pride?
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
