"I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?"

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Jabari Asim

#Dog Quotes #Song Quotes #Religious Quotes

“Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.”
“A negative look from someone else may mean nothing more than they're constipated!”
“Intellectual respectability required mental health, and it was becoming evident to me by then that "mental health" consisted of trusting everyone about everything as much as possible - and, for good measure, poking fun at anyone who didn't. Especially to be trusted were the mass media, whose owners and personnel were not to be regarded as minions of the Establishment because, as they themselves used to attest with confidence, there was no Establishment in the United States of America. Only foreigners and paranoids believed (otherwise).”
“My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original settingâ€¦ but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.”

Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
“Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.”
“I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.”
“My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.”
“Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.”

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