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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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 believe in my writing.
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Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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I am very glad not only to complete the grand slam, but to become Olympic champion alone makes me happy.
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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Personally, I prefer working in the background.
