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Jim Henson Quotes

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

Jim Henson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990

Topics

Hope People Ambition World Better

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Jennifer Armentrout

Love People Amazing Book Think You

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Max Beerbohm

Me Boy Modest Made Oxford

My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.

Michael Arden

Community Me Kid Grandparents Where

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

Siri Hustvedt

History I Am Physician Interested Am

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

Miuccia Prada

Being Communist Different Kids

I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

Moby

Work People Random Learn Interesting

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Joshua Ferris

Time Book Expectations Someone You

People cried nepotism every time I was on the field. But I played for a lot of coaches before I played for my father, and I started for everybody. He wasn't the first person who all the sudden put me in the starting lineup.

Josh McDaniels

Father Time People Me Person First

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

Jordan Peele

New York Growing Up Alien Growing Up

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

Cory Gardner

Colorado Washington More Less Put

Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.

Bob Weinstein

Brother People Person Why Become

In rain water, I observed a small red worm and two other kinds of very minute insects; of those of the larger size, I judged that 30,000 together would not equal a coarse sand.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Rain Water Together Red Small Sand