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Al Smith
Al Smith Politician

"No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas."

Woody Allen
Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

"If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer."

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Kevin Starr Historian, Author
Santa

"If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!"

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race."

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Judd Nelson Actor
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"Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny."

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