Jim Henson Quotes
I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.
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I think Pac is one of those artists that generations on generations know who this guy is, as an artist, as an activist, as an actor - entertainer across the board. I think the new generations of entertainers and artists can be influenced by him just as much as people in the '90s.
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I'm an actor. I want to do drama.
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The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
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I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.
