Jim Henson Quotes
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
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I did a couple of American Express commercials.
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Doubt is important because it suggests progress. Total certainty can mean there's no assessment of things. Doubt, if you don't panic, can allow newness to come in and challenge something that's an established mode.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
