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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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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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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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
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When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.
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If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
