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.
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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'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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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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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
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We can only shape a bright future if we are aware of Germany's enduring responsibility for the ultimate betrayal of all civilised values that was the Shoah.
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In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.
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Where I'm at in life, the women have got to come with something else, not just the body, but the mind and spirit. It usually trips them out, but that's the way it's going to be. I'm looking at the big picture.
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Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.
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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.
