Jim Henson Quotes

The puppets in 'Dark Crystal' were very complicated, and some quite unpleasant. In that movie, I think we got into areas a bit too realistic.

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
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  • Game
  • Training

• Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • High
  • Understanding
  • Criticism

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
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• I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Strong
  • Interesting

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Care
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• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
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• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
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  • You

• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Rich
  • Meaning

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
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• Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

  

  Daniel Everett
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  • Community
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• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
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• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Man
  • Successful
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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
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• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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  • Children
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• ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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  • Islam
  • Toxic

• My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Weird

• A single thought transfuses every form; The sunny day is changed into the storm, For light is dark, hard soft, and cold is warm.One presence fill and floods the whole serene; Nothing can be, nothing has ever been, Except the one truth that creates the scene.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Truth
  • Light
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• I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Want
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• The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
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• The puppets in 'Dark Crystal' were very complicated, and some quite unpleasant. In that movie, I think we got into areas a bit too realistic.

  

  Jim Henson
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