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More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.
Mitchell Zuckoff
People
Will
More
More People
Inspired
Globe
Read
Spotlight
Than
Series
Ever
Watch
There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Achievement
People
Negative
Few
Come
Names
Very
Few People
Even
Whose
Symbolize
Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Work
War
People
World
Better
Sometimes
Luck
Randomly
Several
Would
About
More
Knew
Major
Name
Named
Also
Polite
None
Were
Discovered
Than
Died
Anything
Acting
Theory
Who
Lived
Last
Kentucky
World War
World War II
Imagined
While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the Gremlin Special's passengers and crew.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Freedom
Book
Military
Crew
Individual
Calls
Passengers
Deceased
Gremlin
Information
While
Personnel
Request
Act
Used
Special
Researching
Files
This is not a documentary. Are there essential truths that are captured by this movie? I think unquestionably the answer is yes. Do you have to change certain things to make it work? The book is called '13 Hours'; the movie is two hours long.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Work
You
Change
Book
Long
Think
Unquestionably
Hours
Documentary
Make
Answer
Yes
Truths
Essential
Movie
Certain
Certain Things
Captured
Things
Two
The combination of Ponzi's huge personality and the enormous if brief success of his scheme, combined with the tremendous publicity which surrounded it, is ultimately what attached his name to it.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Success
Personality
Enormous
Tremendous
Attached
Scheme
Combination
Combined
Name
His
Ultimately
Huge
Surrounded
Which
Brief
Publicity
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Faith
Equality
Liberty
Responsibility
Must
Feed
Longer
Come
Denied
Where
Repression
Bread
Place
Public
Them
Ask
Now
Violence
We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.
Morrie Schwartz
Involved
Going
Just
Little
Keep
Keep Going
Acts
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz
Life
You
Back
Because
Go
Want
Meaning
Your
Forward
Found
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz
Yourself
Sympathy
Once
Mourn
Grieve
Again
Twice
I'd always been interested in psychology.
Morrie Schwartz
Always
Been
Psychology
Interested
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
Mother Angelica
Love
Friendship
Needs
Man
Basic Needs
Degree
Satisfied
Both
Share
Greater
To Love
Lesser
Basic
Two
A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
Mother Angelica
Reality
Visible
Sign
Sacrament
Invisible
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death.
Mother Angelica
Death
Knowledge
Father
Will
Criticism
Cowardice
Destitute
Would
Never
He
Feel
Unto
Accepting
His
Accomplishing
Poor
Apostles
Full
Loyal
Even
Deserted
Jesus
Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.
Mother Angelica
Fight
World
Men
Devil
Shine
Gifts
Clarity
Born
Spirit
More
Through
Saints
Privileges
Begins
Against
Flesh
Special
Conquer
Jesus
Religious life is an encounter with the living God. Sometimes that encounter is preceded by a kind of soul-searching agony that tries desperately not to hear, runs in the opposite direction, and frantically tries to reason itself out of answering the invitation.
Mother Angelica
Life
God
Sometimes
Living
Desperately
Out
Kind
Tries
Religious
Runs
Religious Life
Direction
Invitation
Answering
Opposite
Opposite Direction
Hear
Encounter
Itself
Reason
Agony
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
Mother Angelica
Morning
Fades
Like
Mist
Perish
Fame
Ask
Riches
Away
The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.
Mother Angelica
Hope
Peace
Joy
Darkness
Light
Contentment
Pain
Christian
Desolation
Possesses
Consolation
Paradox
He
Sorrow
Exile
Experiences
Turmoil
Fulfillment
Lives
Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.
Mother Angelica
Love
God
Own
Thinking
Other
Our
Way
Ourselves
Take
Particular
Like
Go
Handle
Situations
Then
Us
Use
Many
Desert
Need
I am a mirror to my neighbor, and in that mirror, he must see a reflection of Jesus. If that mirror is cloudy or distorted, Jesus' reflection will be so vague it will hardly be seen.
Mother Angelica
Reflection
Will
Mirror
Seen
Neighbor
Distorted
Must
See
He
Am
Cloudy
Hardly
Jesus
Vague
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
Mother Angelica
Positive
Freedom
Better
Negative
Detachment
Must
Something
Because
Without
Answer
Replace
People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people.
Mother Angelica
Work
Alone
People
Walk
Few
Live
Other
Way
Eat
Some
Study
Without
Shop
Depending
Who
Desert
Play
Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.
Mother Angelica
Death
Future
Dark
Seems
Bleak
Like
Times
Tunnel
Traveled
We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.
Mother Angelica
Best
Personality
Own
Imitating
Our
Unlike
Circumstances
Must
Ability
See
Various
Look
Him
Praise
Then
Jesus
When our neighbor's personality possesses harsh qualities, we show our love by not voluntarily provoking those qualities in any way. Past experience shows us what upsets a person, so in their presence we are careful not to do or say those things that cause anger. We are self-effacing.
Mother Angelica
Love
Anger
Experience
Personality
Cause
Past
Our
Way
Say
Our Love
Harsh
Those
Neighbor
Possesses
Voluntarily
Qualities
Provoking
Person
Any
Upsets
Us
Show
Shows
Things
Presence
Careful
I must listen as God speaks to my soul through good thoughts, inspirations, and intuitions.
Mother Angelica
God
Good
Thoughts
Soul
Must
My Soul
Inspirations
Through
Good Thoughts
Listen
Speaks
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