Caroll Spinney Quotes

I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

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• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

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• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

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• Well I think that what we're seeing now is that the people feel like they, the people in Congress don't have their consent to govern them. They keep doing things that are incredibly unpopular. And so when that happens, folks get angry.

  

  Laura Ingraham
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• My father had very little formal education.

  

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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

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• I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
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• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
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• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

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• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
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  • Technology

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

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• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

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• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

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• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

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• Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

  

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• El matador de almas no mata cien almas; mata una alma sola, cien veces.

  

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• I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

  

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• I was stuck in a wheelchair playing this deranged villain. I felt this mass amount of rage at being so confined. I thought, 'What can I do that is the direct opposite of this situation?' The only thing I could think of was that I could sing and dance.

  

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• I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.

  

  Caroll Spinney
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