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I hate puppets so much. -- Trey Parker
Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted. -- Henry Selick
I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that. -- PJ Harvey
I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars. -- Craig Ferguson
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin. -- Garry Kasparov
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. -- Leo Buscaglia
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. -- Jim Henson
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses. -- Helena Bonham Carter
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. -- Jim Henson
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. -- Eric Hoffer
You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures. -- Caroll Spinney
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. -- Marcus Aurelius
Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is. -- Wayne White
Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts. -- Wayne White
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. -- William Laud
I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill. -- Imelda May
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad. -- Garry Shandling
We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. -- Alan Moore
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. -- Rainn Wilson
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state. -- Ron Paul
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. -- Robert Browning
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things. -- Walt Disney
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college. -- Wesley Snipes
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974) -- Stanley Milgram
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts. -- Friedrich Schiller
There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger. -- Arjuna Ranatunga
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are. -- Joss Whedon
I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White House, 'You've built this house of shame'. Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it's like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American. -- Jonathan Davis
We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces. -- Georg Buchner
As long as Muslims were confident they could not be defeated, but now we are just puppets. -- Abu Bakar Bashir
My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. -- Nina Conti
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say. -- Nina Conti
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it. -- Paul Winchell
I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension. -- Daniel Tosh
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience. -- Tom Riley
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny. -- Mo Rocca
Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.' -- Jason Segel
I think I've got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I'm just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets. -- Nina Conti
I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want. -- Kristen Schaal
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. -- Roberto Unger
I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.' -- Steve Buscemi
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' -- Eliot Spitzer
Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets. -- Ellen Hopkins
We are puppets of our subconscious desires. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets. -- David Sedaris
Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts -- Helena Bonham Carter
You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets. -- Daniel Tosh
We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets -- Leonard Ravenhill
Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around. -- Jamie Wyeth
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings... -- Charles W. Chesnutt
We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen. -- Leo Booth
Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything. -- Carlo Collodi
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. -- Julian Jaynes
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance. -- W. H. Auden
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. -- Alan Watts
You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you? -- Jon Stewart
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence? -- Winston Graham
We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk. -- Luigi Pirandello
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. -- James Bobin
he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets. -- Brian Henson
Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story. -- Brian Henson
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill. -- Brian Henson
But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects. -- Brian Henson
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. -- Pico Iyer
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands -- Pico Iyer
I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is. -- Wes Anderson
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country -- Masashi Kishimoto
I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted. -- Nina Conti
My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they're relevant. -- Trent Reznor
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets. -- Edith Wharton
We did just leave an insane asylum,â? Hi agreed. â??For all we know, Chance spend his nights dancing naked with sock puppets, plotting to invade Canada. -- Kathy Reichs
Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I finish. -- Nina Conti
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets. -- Marc Maron
I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. -- Spike Jonze
I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry. -- Wayne White
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I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents. -- Christopher Fowler
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom. -- Peter L. Berger
I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings. -- Larry Kirshbaum
For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds. -- Michel Ocelot
I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that. -- Barry Levinson
What I remember most about working on 'Sesame Street' is having fun in the green room with the other kids while waiting for my time to go on camera to work with the puppets. -- Tyler James Williams
First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture. -- Wayne White

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