Jim Henson Quotes
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
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When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.
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I was never very happy at school.
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When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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Of writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,-Will write my story for my better self,As when you paint your portrait for a friend,Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at itLong after he has ceased to love you, justTo hold together what he was and is.
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I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
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I lost interest in being in the public eye.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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It often happens that we are most touched by what we are least capable of. Evanescent delicacy is not the quality in the arts that I admire most, but it is often the characteristic by which I am most reduced to envy.
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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
