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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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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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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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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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
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I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
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Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
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My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
