Jim Henson Quotes

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • You
  • Loss
  • Winner

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• Another occupation might have been better.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Better
  • Been
  • Occupation

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Changed
  • Last
  • Hawaii

• One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Christian
  • Years
  • Favourite

• We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Silly
  • Dumb

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• I'm a '90s baby.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Baby

• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mistake

• The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wise Man

• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Difficulties
  • Partners
  • Rarely

• I read the 'New Yorker' when I was a kid. I used to love the cartoons and pick the cartoons out of the library, so I felt I knew the world of their cartoons.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • World
  • Library

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Path

• As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

  

  Jim Henson
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  • Believe
  • Live