Ricky Jay Quotes
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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Although we have enough healthcare support, often it doesn't reach the poor and needy. In this scenario, technology is the best solution.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they'd put me to bed. I heard everyone on the rooftop, and I went upstairs. No one paid any attention to me, so I took a hose and sprayed everyone. Very elegant, right? 'It's me! Look at me!' I loved the attention.
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I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.
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I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.
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Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!
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The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.
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As a kid, I was creative and unique, and I've had that my whole life.
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There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.
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As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.
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I always seek one quality in my friends - that they should be genuine.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
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A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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Watching previous figure skaters, I always wondered why they cried after their performance.
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Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.
