Jim Henson Quotes
I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
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Miller and his colleague Marty Haselton at UCLA have shown that creativity trumps wealth, at least in human females.
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There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.
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I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.
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Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.
