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I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic. -- Madeleine Albright
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. -- Bill Condon
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing. -- Terry Eagleton
I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean. -- Francis Ford Coppola
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it! -- Sofia Vergara
I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt of lightning if I didn't. -- Chuck Feeney
I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that's all I ever was associated with. -- Lou Holtz
Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them. -- Julian Assange
We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant. -- Eartha Kitt
I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. -- Simone Weil
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists. -- Chiang Kai-shek
I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and Mom in the middle, and they said, 'Mrs. Farley, the children at school are laughing at Christopher, not with him.' I thought, 'Who cares? As long as they're laughing.' -- Chris Farley
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing. -- Katherine Moennig
Before I read the 'Bloody Sunday' script, I have to admit I hadn't thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation. -- James Nesbitt
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation. -- Natascha McElhone
I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. -- Frank Miller
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing." -- Terry Eagleton
Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything -- Elizabeth Strout

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