Jim Henson Quotes
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
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I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me.
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If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
