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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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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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 believe in my writing.
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I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
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The standard of permanent Christianity must be kept clear in our minds and it is against that standard that we must test all contemporary thought. In fact, we must at all costs not move with the times.
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The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
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Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine; even if it's only for 10 to 15 minutes I find it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength.
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New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first got here, it was incredibly exciting. It was also so hot. I didn't know New York got so hot. I'm not a fan of the heat!
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To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
