Ricky Jay Quotes
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
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An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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My father was an amazing man. No person is perfect, and no father-son relationship is perfect. He wanted me to live my life my way and never think about what he would have done or what he would have wanted to do.
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As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.
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I get referred to as the social media kid on set, but I don't let it bother me. I try not to.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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There is that little compass within each one of us where we know what is right, what is just, what is good, what is true.
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'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
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I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.
