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• I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Religious, Years, Two

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Religious, Regret, War

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• I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.

  Veronica Roth

  Religious, Crazy, Believe

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to change people's thoughts. I don't believe that as a comic I can convert anyone's opinion. I think I can maybe make someone look in one direction or the other but I can't make a religious person stop believing in God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: montrealrampage.com

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• My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply thoughtful man whose religion is in his deeds way more than anything else. It's not talked about that much.

  Hugh Jackman

  Religious, Father, Thoughtful

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• I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

  Tupac Shakur

  Religious, Believe, Thug

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.

  John Hodgman

  Religious, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Religious, Believe

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October 2000.

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• I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

  Heidi Montag

  Religious, Crazy, Years

  "Heidi Montag is now making music religiously" by Debbie Newman, www.mtv.com. June 30, 2008.

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• A religious person is a desireless person.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Persons

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• I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.

  Panda Bear

  Religious, Growing Up, Powerful

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• Again, although I'm not a particularly religious person, I go back to the religious left that I come out of: There are moral imperatives to fight back. As Daniel Berrigan says, "We're called to do the good." And then we have to let it go. It's not our job to know where the good goes.

  Chris Hedges

  Religious, Jobs, Fighting

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Falling In Love, Imagine

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start, because Heidegger forces us in a way that few philosophers do to really think through the seriousness and all-encompassing nature of our mortality.

  George Pattison

  Religious, Thinking, Nihilism

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Two, Inquiring

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• I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Religious, Persons

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk - at a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Religious, Father, Cutting

  Source: www.slate.com

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• One of the things that I'm doing and I'm - we have the Johnson Amendment. You know what that is. That Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s passed an amendment because supposedly he was having a hard time with a church in Houston, with a pastor. And he passed an amendment saying basically if you're a pastor, if you're a religious person, you cannot get up and talk politics.

  Donald Trump

  Religious, Hard Times, Church

  Donald Trump's Remarks to a Veterans Group, time.com. October 3, 2016.

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• I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

  Leonard Cohen

  Religious, Persons

  "Leonard Cohen: giving Nobel to Bob Dylan like 'pinning medal on Everest'". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Character, Proud

  "America's Renaissance Woman". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

  Eric Hoffer

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ive always been a religious person.

  Chuck Pagano

  Religious, Persons

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• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Intelligent, Competition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

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• A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Answers, Elected Officials

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.

  Cal Thomas

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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