Jim Henson Quotes
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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When I saw Bryan Singer's 'Usual Suspects,' I knew how it was going to end because I'd seen 'Scary Movie.' Which is not the preferred order of things, but that's how it is because my childhood was 'Home Alone,' 'Matilda,' 'Batman Returns,' 'Jumanji,' 'Secret Garden,' 'Jack,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Titanic.' Only family films from the '90s.
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I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
