Jane Fonda Quotes
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory
For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen – skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. Sylvia Plath
For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you’d stay up until three in the morning. You’d hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus. Chris Pine
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. Chuck Palahniuk
I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus. Joe Nichols
We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. Karen Armstrong
I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12! Danielle de Niese
Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. Patti Smith
Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit… Santa, who was jolly – but, let’s face it, he was also very judgmental. Julia Sweeney
I’m concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn’t buy it, and she’s 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, ‘There is a Santa Claus,’ and she says, ‘Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?’ She really doesn’t believe. Salma Hayek
Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year. Victor Borge
The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we’re doing or takes sides when we have fights – it’s more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master. Dave Matthews
They don’t come much more strange than the Fall. I’ve heard Mark sing half a concert while lying on a sofa in the dressing room. I’ve seen him singing behind the speakers with just the back of his head visible. He accosts his musicians, detunes instruments and generally disrupts. He is largely indecipherable. Yet the Fall have produced a body of work that is incredible. There is a Beefheart influence and a pile of riffs. The words are interesting. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it sure connects.
The thing with me, I can’t talk about my work. I find it very difficult.
Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.
A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren’t as smart as me..
I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.
When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn’t exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
If you’re going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.
If it’s me and your granny on bongos, then it’s the Fall.
Tuli was a founder member of the Fugs and a truly interesting man, poet, singer, songwriter, performer, writer and personality. He was a pacifist and a libertarian. He used a lot of humour!
724. Bring a gun and a target and at an appropriate moment (say the eye exam) lean the target against the wall and start shooting at it, screaming: “Kill the Commies! Kill the fucken Commies!”
427. Tell them God is on your side; if they say God is on their side, answer OK, it’s a draw, let’s go home.
845. Secede from the U.S. Set up your own country and demand to be treated as a prisoner of war under the Geneva agreements.
I’m not totally convinced that they would work in the way intended.

Chuck was brilliant. He invented a lot of the basic ingredients of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Although Johnny Johnson, his pianist, probably had a lot to do with it). His guitar riffs are instantly recognisable and fundamental. His songs formed a big percentage of many Rock Groups repertoire.
In the fifties he and Bo set the tone and brought black R&B and white C&W, with dollops of Chicago Blues, into Rock music.
Chuck was astute and homed in on the white teenage market yet he consistently produced songs that had more to them than just that. Cars, Dancing, School and Girls were the main themes. They were brilliant.
However as the fifties came to an end they wanted to shut down Rock ‘n’ Roll and Chuck got caught up in it. He found himself locked up on a trumped up charge.
Chuck had a big chip on his shoulder. He felt that he had been treated really badly and ripped off right left and centre by white promoters, record producers and club owners. It made him cynical. He put together scratch bands and did the minimum possible. The great songs (with a few exceptions) dried up, the performances were patchy (Unrehearsed and minimal input) and the creativity dried up.
What a shame. He was prostituting his talent.
It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
I think that is true in all creative endeavours.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
That seems a bit contradictory to me. They are not the same thing. Science is about establishing how things work. It deals with reality. Religion is based on belief and has no factual substance.
A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.
This is the mindset that created decline. He wasn’t treating the music as a fun creative thing; it was a job that he had to do. I can’t understand why. If he had put his heart and soul into it he would have enjoyed it more himself. He was just eaten up with the way he had been exploited.
Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.
Thoroughly agree with the first two – but then I’d add pleasure, love, happiness, creativity, fulfilment, friendship way above wealth.