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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There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.
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Reality is always kinder than the story we tell about it.
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The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
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The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.
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Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
