Jim Henson Quotes
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I like to always have humour in whatever I do.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.
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You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
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You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
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Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
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I always said if I had to pick one Grand Slam to win, it would be the U.S. Open.
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I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
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A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"
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The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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I think my own strengths are in television production.
