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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If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.
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Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
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When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.
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I didn't make movies when I was a kid, but I loved them. That was considered a far-fetched dream.
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All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
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I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.
