Ricky Jay Quotes

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

Ricky Jay

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  • Want
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• Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.

  

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• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

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  • God
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• I almost can't believe this even needs to be said, but it's not unwarranted to burden retirement advisers with a requirement that they act in their clients' best interest.

  

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  • Believe
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• My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

  

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  • Always
  • Angry
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• Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Great
  • Success
  • Interesting

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

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  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

  

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  • Right
  • Actor
  • Working

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

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  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

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  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  

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  • Latin
  • Greek
  • Come

• One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Together
  • Society
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• He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lost
  • Desire
  • Possessed

• I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Content

• The purse strings tie us to our kind.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.

  

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  • People
  • Great
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• I have over 35 tattoos.

  

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• He flew coach ? that was the only problem.

  

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  • Problem
  • Coach

• My favorite show of my father Aaron Spelling is probably a show that was his favorite and that was a show called Family. He was the most proud of that show because, you know, my dad kind of got a bad wrap, I think. A lot of times people would say oh he just makes jiggle TV and it's all for entertainment purposes. But he did some really amazing shows as well that he was really proud of, that people kind overlooked. And Family was one of them.

  

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  • Family
  • Proud
  • Show

• The adult fiction and writing for children portions of my MFA program were kept very separate, and there was a stigma around those 'kid people.'

  

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  • People
  • Program
  • Separate

• People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

  

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  • People
  • Family
  • Political

• In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Management
  • Winter
  • Program