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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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.
