"For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus."

-- Rickie Lee Jones

#People Quotes #Santa Quotes #Use Quotes

“Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
“Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.”
“First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.”
“I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.”

Source : "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.
“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”
“What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.”
“A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect, he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, allâ€knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified.”
“Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.”

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