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01c. 1971 AD

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

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02c. 1971 AD

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.

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03c. 1971 AD

The business end of business has never interested me.

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04c. 1971 AD

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

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05c. 1971 AD

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

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06c. 1971 AD

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

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07c. 1971 AD

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

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08c. 1971 AD

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

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09c. 1971 AD

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

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10c. 1971 AD

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

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11c. 1971 AD

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

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12c. 1971 AD

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

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13c. 1971 AD

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

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14c. 1971 AD

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

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15c. 1971 AD

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

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16c. 1971 AD

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

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17c. 1971 AD

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

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18c. 1971 AD

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

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19c. 1971 AD

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

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20c. 1971 AD

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

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21c. 1971 AD

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

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22c. 1971 AD

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

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23c. 1971 AD

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

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24c. 1971 AD

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

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