Ricky Jay Quotes
I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. … To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear.
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As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.
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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
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I chose my own path because that was the only way.
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I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.
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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
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There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.
