Catholic Quotes - Page 28

• I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

  Aravind Adiga

  Christian, Father, Community

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• I was brought up a Catholic, so I suppose I have to believe in the goodness of human beings. I think we're not so bad after all.

  Pauline Collins

  Believe, Thinking, Goodness

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• I just try to be the best Catholic.

  Jim Caviezel

  Trying, Being The Best

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• Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

  Linda Cardellini

  Thinking, People, Guilt

  "The Mad Men GQ+A: Linda Cardellini on Sylvia Rosen's Extramarital Bombshell". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Years, Names, India

  Interview with Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Betrayal, Views, Parent

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• I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

  Mia Farrow

  Thinking, Guilt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

  Prabal Gurung

  School, Thinking, Knowing

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• I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

  Josh Gad

  Spiritual, Religious, Wife

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• I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminated.

  Katherine Helmond

  School, Catholic School, Asks

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Church, Comfort, Taught

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Talking, Belief, Priests

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• I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

  Frances O'Connor

  Thinking, Giving, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

  Keith O'Brien

  Religious, Scotland, Voice

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• I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.

  Tony Orlando

  Jesus, Heart, School

  "Tony Orlando's Brush With Death". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com. October 16, 2013.

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• Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

  Danny Pudi

  Thinking, Able, My Family

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.

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• I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

  Dennis Lehane

  Home, Kids, Violent

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• I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I wouldn't say I'm not religious.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Religious, Jesus, Church

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• It's perfectly fair that you can't be a Roman Catholic priest unless you're a man. It seems right that the reach of anti-discriminatory law should stop at the door of the church or mosque.

  Trevor Phillips

  Men, Doors, Law

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• To me there's nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work.

  Trevor Phillips

  Country, Agency, Law

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• I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

  Kiki Smith

  Spiritual, Praying, Persons

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• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  Zakk Wylde

  Boys

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• Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while and that was to help me get through school.

  Mia Love

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  "In Utah, GOP House Candidate Out To Make History". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Mistake, Guilty, Raised

  "WordPress, Matt Mullenweg" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2006.

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• You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!

  Sofia Vergara

  School, Class, Clown

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