Caroll Spinney Quotes
Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
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I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
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People probably think I'm cute because I have dimples and am friendly and always smiling. But beauty is different. In Chinese, people say I have chi ze, which means aura or a strong sense of presentation. It's not about my look.
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I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
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Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
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Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
