Jim Henson Quotes
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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I'm the third of five children.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
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I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.
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Our leadership in Microsoft has that - "hey, we are the best in certain ways," and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun.
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Directing is an act of interpretation.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
