Barbra Streisand

“I’m a Jewess through and through, although I’m not religious. I don’t do anything intentionally to hurt anyone. I feel like I’m a good person. And that feels very Jewish …

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John Oliver

“I was not that rebellious as a kid, but I was really done with church in a pretty big way. And I think they could probably feel that this wasn’t …

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J.M.W. Turner

“As a child he was sent to a Methodist school in Margate, but as a young man there are accounts of him eschewing church in favor of continuing to sketch.” …

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Peter Watson

“Religion has kept civilization back for hundreds of years, and the biggest mistake in the history of civilization, is ethical monotheism, the concept of the one God. Let’s get rid …

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Sergei Prokofiev

“At home we didn’t talk about religion. So, gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen, my father died; my response to …

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Vladimir Nabokov

“In the 1920s I was clawed at by a certain Mochulski [Konstantin, a literary critic and philosopher] who could never stomach my utter indifference to organized mysticism, to religion, to …

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