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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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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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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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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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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An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
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I'm definitely not a monthly guy. Probably never will be. I'm simply in awe of the guys who do monthly books well... hell, in awe of people who do monthlies period.
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There are few people in this world with whom I can converse.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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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.
