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Jim Henson

"Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working."

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Akiroq Brost

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."

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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."

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"He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you."

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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."

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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."

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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."

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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."

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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

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Jim Henson
"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."

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Jim Henson
"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."

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Jim Henson
"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."

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Jim Henson
"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."

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Jim Henson
"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities."

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Jim Henson
"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."

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Jim Henson
"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."

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Jim Henson
"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday."

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Jim Henson
"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."

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Jim Henson
"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."

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