Jim Henson Quotes

There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do.

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• For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Character
  • Shoes
  • Start

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Open
  • Well
  • Desperation

• What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • True
  • Government

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Want

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• I quite like being who I am.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Like

• I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Give

• We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • High
  • Success
  • Small

• You rewind. You think of your preparation. You think of everything you did throughout the week, your life, the practices, the intensity. Everything flashes, and you come right back to that point. And it's like, game on.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Game
  • Week

• Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Today

• I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Responsibility
  • Too Much

• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
  • Physical

• In food, it's really, like, either you're right, or you're wrong. You know, people's taste buds kind of vary, but there's a technique. Either you do it right, or you don't.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • Food

• And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Writing

• A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Life
  • Character
  • Relationship

• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Simple
  • Care
  • Liberty

• There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Simple