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• Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

  David Letterman

  Naughty, Today, Lists

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• "The only reason some of us are not exiled or thrown into prison is simply because we do not preach as fervently and as sternly as did Paul, John, Peter R.A. Torrey and others. This modern "santa claus" religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced."

  Oliver B. Greene

  Country, Jesus, Religion

  Oliver B. Greene (2015). “The Revelation: Verse by Verse Study”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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• For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, California, Space

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• They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  "Billy Bob Thornton for 'The Astronaut Farmer'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. February 23, 2007.

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• Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

  George Seaton

  Thinking, Generosity, Giving

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• The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

  Patti Page

  Song, Titles, Great Christmas

  "Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.

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• When I go home to Santa Cruz, I'm the same girl as when I grew up.

  Marisa Miller

  Girl, Home, Grew

  "Monte Headliners Hope Show Starts Something Big..." by Genevieve Bookwalter and Alia Wilson, www.santacruzsentinel.com. October 02, 2009.

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• OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

  Linus Torvalds

  Father, Real, Men

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• Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood, telling all the kids that there was no Santa Claus. This reached the ears of the father of a neighbouring family, who reproved me for spoiling it for the little ones. Spoiling it! I could not understand what he meant. To my mind, they were being made fools of, and I was only saving them from this indignity.

  Barbara Smoker

  Children, Father, Kids

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• Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.

  Max Barry

  Beautiful, Football, Country

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• HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures.

  Raven Grimassi

  Kings, Winter, Men

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• I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

  Sam Allardyce

  Soccer, Football, Chairman

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• They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friday, Laughter, Kids

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 21, 2005.

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• "You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "Santa Claus has had a tremendous influence, exist or not." "For children." "Lots of saints have died for God with a courage that's hardly childish." "That's part of the horror. It's all a fantasy. It's all for nothing."

  Peter De Vries

  Children, Believe, Atheism

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.182, University of Chicago Press

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• Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Cooking, Giants

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• The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Cities, Names

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Christian, New York, Real

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• [Eric]Goldman [a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law] says back in the 1990s, courts began to confront the question of whether software code is a form of speech. Goldman says the answer to that question came in a case called Bernstein v. U.S. Department of Justice. Student Daniel Bernstein who created an encryption software called Snuffle. He wanted to put it on the Internet. The government tried to prevent him, using a law meant to stop the export of firearms and munitions. Goldman says the student argued his code was a form of speech.

  Laura Sydell

  School, Government, Law

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Walk through Santa Monica and try to find somebody who knows a young man or woman who's in this war. Here, war is an intellectual concept. If you lose your son or daughter, it's no longer an intellectual matter.

  Paul Haggis

  Daughter, War, Son

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• Well, I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know? Potentially in the form of The Godmother from Santa Monica's Bay Cities [Italian Deli &] Bakery. But for a primal "Wow, every sense is on fire!" moment, it would have to be live music.

  Patrick Fabian

  Inspiration, Italian, Fire

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can remember, I think it was 1967, sitting in the First Unitarian Church in Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, and seeing Phil Levine come out on the little stage. He sat on the edge and said, "You know, sometimes it's hard not to hate my country for the way I feel, at times, but I won't let that happen." And then he read, "They Feed They Lion," this incredibly powerful, incantatory poem that was inspired in part by the burning of Detroit in 1967 and the riots that followed.

  Sam Hamill

  Country, Powerful, Hate

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I am in communication with almost everybody I've done a story about. I have a fantasy that if I ever strike it rich, I'll have a big party and fly all of these people there, and they'll be roaming around the party - Billy Mitchell, Master Legend, Santa Tim, Rio DiAngelo, Mr. Romance circa 2007, and so on.

  Joshuah Bearman

  Party, Communication, Roaming Around

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Pursuit Of Happiness, College

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

  Jami Attenberg

  Children, Believe, Holiday

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• The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.

  James Lileks

  Talking, Voice, Mad

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