“I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.”

Also quoted in Frank Sinatra, My Father (1986) by Nancy Sinatra, p. 201.
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American singer and film actor 1915–1998

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