I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.
Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity. He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string like other candidates.
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.
We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?
Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.
I also eschew the identity of "puppeteer" it is a concept that blurs the boundaries of discrete objects and persons. I do think Anarchist Nihilist Puppet Show is my day job.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
It is in our interest to crush ISIS, terrorist groups like the al-Nusra front and Ahrar ash-Sham, and Iran's puppet Assad.
Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.
The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.
The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
As the writer you are the puppet-master and can control everything. Believe me, that is a whole lot of fun because it ain't something that's going to be happening very often in real life!
You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.
And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.
Please don't begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.
Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.
He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.
You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.
I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.
Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less...the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.
I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.
Calling Trump 'Putin's puppet' is a sign of the weakness of the American political system. It appears so weak and fragile that outsiders can actually meddle about in it.
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.
You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.
I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.
Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.
But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.
I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
A Clock stopped--
Not the Mantel's--
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing--
That just now dangled still
[Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.
I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
I don't think that anyone should be in control of a relationship. I think that if you have a woman that controls her man, he is a puppet, and he is weak.
It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
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