Jim Henson Quotes

With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.

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• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • School
  • Kids
  • Girl

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Experience
  • You
  • Greek

• ISIS itself, it draws its central belief system from the Koran and from the writings of the Prophet Muhammad. That is undeniable. And it's a medieval interpretation of it. It is a literal interpretation of it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Belief
  • System
  • Prophet

• Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Real
  • May
  • Small

• Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Past
  • Crazy
  • Planning

• Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Career
  • Walk
  • Park

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Guy
  • Everything
  • Big

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Name

• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Easy
  • Cost
  • Finance

• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Free
  • Survive
  • Questioning

• Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

  

  Melissa De Sousa
  • Different
  • Children
  • Negotiate

• All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Different
  • Values

• With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Different