Santa Quotes - Page 14

• If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.

  Ted Strickland

  Fire, Reindeer, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ted Strickland from Sep 05, 2012

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• Grown ups don't believe in Santa Claus. They vote.

  Pierre Desproges

  Believe, Vote, Santa Claus

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• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

  William Halsey

  Courage, Two, Enemy

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• A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Funny, Men, Upset

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

  Jim Cornette

  Children, Real, Wrestling

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• Postal officials say that before Christmas they receive tons of letters written to Santa Claus, but after Christmas how few letters of thanks are sent to him! From childhood onward, human beings seem to be characterized by thanklessness.

  Robert E. Lee

  Gratitude, Childhood, Letters

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• How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Lying, Sacrifice, Giving

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• I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. And even now, I'm still like, 'Maybe I'll just quit the biz and go to Santa Cruz and study marine biology and have my own research center in the Bahamas.' Yeah, I'm sure it would be just that smooth.

  Cobie Smulders

  School, Marine, Research

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• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

  David Talbot

  School, Journalism, Sociology

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• Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Children, Buddhism

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• God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with white hair and a beard like Santa. This seemed strange to me. When I thought of God, I imagined only mist over the pond, a sliver of moon in a dark sky, scatterings of stars, birdsong.

  Melissa Coleman

  Stars, Kids, Dark

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• Well when I was a kid, I asked Santa Claus for some toys. Santa Claus wrote me a letter that he lost his bag. He said he'd get back to me next year.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Kids, Years, Bags

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• Just as there are many more Californians now to be found in the temples of Kyoto or the villages of Bali or the mountains of the Himalayas than ever before, what is also exciting is that one can just go downtown Santa Barbara and find ayurvedic medicine, Thai restaurants, and Japanese cars in abundance.

  Pico Iyer

  Medicine, Kyoto, Santa Barbara

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

  Charlie Viracola

  Kids, Parent, Santa Claus

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• I joined the board of the Santa Fe Institute.

  Esther Dyson

  Santa Fe, Boards, Institute

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  Randy Quaid

  Running, Santa Barbara, Wind

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• Our local department store had two Santas - one for regular kids and one for kids who wanted ten toys or less.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Kids, Two

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• I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

  Nolan Bushnell

  School, Class, Order

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• I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

  April Bowlby

  Sunday, Interesting, Fleas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

  Ellen Bass

  Santa Cruz, Moved, Cruz

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• Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thanksgiving, Children, Able

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• Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

  S. J. Perelman

  Airplane, Glasses, Santa Barbara

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• I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Sorry, Dad, Years

  "Michael B. Jordan, ‘Fruitvale’ Star, Reveals His Early Tap Dancing Roots". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

  Joe Nichols

  Nine, Firsts, First Time

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