Jim Henson Quotes
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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The Nobel Prize is not very important for the winners - they are usually pretty successful people already. But it is valuable as a way of drawing the public's attention to important work in economics.
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L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life.
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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
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It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
