Jim Henson Quotes
People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.
Quotes to Explore
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I don't feel closeted.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.
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People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.
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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.
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People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.
