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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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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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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I want people to be able to give their voice.
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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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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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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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I lost over 100 pounds, so I'm even angrier than ever. I don't stuff my feelings anymore with food. Skinny girls are funny.
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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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I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
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One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
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I think for me, as far as cooking, some of it came naturally just from watching my dad. My dad was more of the cook than my mom was, so it's just handing it down from generation to generation. I just love to cook and have fun. And as performers, we love to cook, and we love to entertain people.
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Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
