Jim Henson Quotes

I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.

Jim Henson

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• I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

  

  M. Ward
  • Different
  • Country
  • Song

• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Cooperation
  • International

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Accept
  • Feedback

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Like
  • Goal

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• It's not a bargain if it has bedbugs.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Bargain

• Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Believe
  • Why

• BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Body

• I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Fan
  • Jewelry
  • Huge

• Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Effort

• It may be inverted snobbishness but I don't want old style, Old Etonian Tories of the old school to succeed me and go back to the old complacent, consensus ways. John Major is someone who has fought his way up from the bottom and is far more in tune with the skilled and ambitious and worthwhile working classes than Douglas Hurd is.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • School
  • May

• For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • World
  • God
  • Air

• With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're creating this thing and then it's also going to live with black folks on the street and protests and organizations.' It was very important for us to use the hashtag as a way to have a larger conversation and as an organizing tool.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Important
  • Live
  • Black

• Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

  

  Mel Gibson
  • Business
  • Cool
  • Bold

• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Christian

• I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.

  

  Jim Henson