Jim Henson Quotes
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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The fruit we wish to pick tomorrow lies hidden in the seed of today. The goals we are to read and the problems we are to solve tomorrow depend upon today's diligence, hope and faith, today's conviction of the almightiness of good.
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I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
