Brian Henson Quotes

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
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• If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

  

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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

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• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

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• The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

  

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• For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.

  

  Olga Fonda
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• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
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• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

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• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

  

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• At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
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• I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

  

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• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
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• I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

  

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• Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Dream
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• I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

  

  Lindsay Lohan
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• Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.

  

  Davis Schneiderman
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• My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Story