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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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
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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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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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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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There is a saying that bad traders divorce their spouse sooner than abandon their positions. Loyalty to ideas is not a good thing for traders, scientists - or anyone.
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Jack: I'm scared, I'm frightened.
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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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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.
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We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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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.
