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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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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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 think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.
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Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
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It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.
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Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
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Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
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I want to be buried with a mobile phone, just in case I'm not dead.
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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.
