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I was an altar boy in an incredible monastery that was attached to a rectory. The theater of the church is the most incredible theater, and in this church, it was beyond. It was this huge monastery. It was landmarked. It's a beautiful building, and I kind of had the run of it.

~Bobby Cannavale

Topics: Altar Attached Beautiful Beyond Boy Building Church Had Huge Incredible Kind Monastery Most Run Theater

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In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

~Bruce Springsteen

Topics: Also Altar Because Being Belonged Boy Desk Distinction Down Garbage Grade Had Her Knocked Mass Me Nun Only Priest Said She Stuffed Third Where

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Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

~Charles Buck

Topics: Altar Belly Cook God Kitchen Priest Table

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Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

~Charles Tennyson Turner

Topics: Achieve Altar Being Current Did Felt Find Furnished He His Least Man Sense Spot Stood Strange Surest Thought Until Where Worthy Would

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Hey, I was raised in the church. I was an altar boy and a choir member. I almost became a priest - until common sense grabbed hold of me.

~Cheech Marin

Topics: Almost Altar Became Boy Choir Church Common Common Sense Grabbed Hey Hold Me Member Priest Raised Sense Until I Was Raised

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I was an altar boy and a choir member.

~Cheech Marin

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Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.

~Chieh Huang

Topics: Altar Different Different Way Dollar Every Everyone Increase Invest Last Now People Please Praying Profits Shareholders Them Treat Way Well You Your

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I write in my study, where I also have my prayer altar. I believe that keeps me focused and gives me positive energy and reminds me that I'm merely the instrument of greater creative forces.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Also Altar Believe Creative Energy Focused Forces Gives Greater Instrument Keeps Me Merely Positive Positive Energy Prayer Reminds Study Where Write I Believe I Believe That I Write

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I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

~Chris Ofili

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I was an altar boy and heard the Bible being read out repeatedly. The stories have stayed with me, although they're completely remixed in my head. And often, when I do further reading, I'm quite surprised by the difference between the real story and my memory of the story.

~Chris Ofili

Topics: Altar Although Being Between Bible Boy Difference Further Head Heard Me Memory Often Out Quite Read Reading Real Repeatedly Stayed Stories Story Surprised

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