Ricky Jay Quotes

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

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• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

  

  Warren Spector
  • School
  • New York
  • Stand

• To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Me
  • Luxury

• Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Long
  • Money
  • Care

• Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • School
  • Respect
  • Peace

• The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Tax

• The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Know
  • Single

• I had some experience when I joined 'The Sopranos' in the last season. My character married Christopher, and everyone loved Adriana. I knew what it was like to join a very beloved, secretive show and following a very iconic character.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Loved

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Artist
  • Jazz

• I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • You
  • Moment
  • Permanent

• I dance. I don't really do anything else.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Anything
  • Else

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• How should we deal with intrusions of fiction into life, now that we have seen the historical impact that this phenomenon can have? … Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Sleep

• Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.

  

  George A. Moore
  • World
  • Long
  • She

• Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Time
  • May
  • Hand

• I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Good
  • Napoleon

• Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Free

• The real harvest of life is the outworking of the internal. If there's nothing in there, there's nothing to work out.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Real
  • Magic
  • Lying