Jim Henson Quotes

I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee.

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• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Painting

• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Cold
  • Mud

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Universe
  • Moments
  • Just

• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• It's just fun to be in Paris.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Fun
  • Paris
  • Just

• I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Trying
  • Jerk
  • Snob

• When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Proud
  • Win
  • Friendship

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Texas

• I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Sweet

• Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Career
  • Teammate

• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Experience
  • Wartime
  • Vietnam

• I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Stuff
  • Honest
  • Bunch

• I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Support

• I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee.

  

  Jim Henson