Ricky Jay Quotes
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
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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!
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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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.
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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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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.
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I dance. I don't really do anything else.
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I always root for the defense.
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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.
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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
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The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
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Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.
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It's okay to love something a little too much,as long as it's real to you.
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Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.