Ricky Jay Quotes
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.
Quotes to Explore
-
I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
-
In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
-
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
-
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
-
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
-
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
-
Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
-
When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
-
Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
-
There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
-
Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
-
Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.
-
In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to to kill a million people than to control a million.
-
For a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.
-
People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
-
If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.
-
Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our time in a world of baking powder biscuits and the best shrimp cocktails that ever were.
