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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

— Jim Henson Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.

Interview with Associated Press (1987)

Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have.

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U.S.

Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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