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.

Ricky Jay

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TimeFoodBestWorldBakingGo

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Andrew J. Bernstein

TruthHealthStressBossThoughts

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

Andrea Martin

SittingLikeAroundUnpredictability

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

Jean-Michel Jarre

AmbitionInnocenceTryingWay

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

John Updike

FailureCriticismLiteratureKind

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

Amitava Kumar

YoungTumultuousLives

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

Sidney Poitier

ManAmericaDifficultOwnYour

I've never met a Mormon I didn't like. They're really nice people. They're so Disney. They're so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Trey Parker

PeopleNiceNeverLikeMormonMet

The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.

Tucker Carlson

BlackAssumptionsChicagoSameOut

But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.

Treat Williams

GoodFatherHusbandThoughtLike

I think the term 'friend' itself has lost almost all of its exclusivity. Even the term 'good friend' is overused. Adding the word 'vital' provides a clear definition of what we mean.

Tom Rath

GoodFriendThinkLostMeanClear

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

Joni Eareckson Tada

GoodGovernmentPeopleWantMeet

Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.

Jojo Moyes

DayWordsMoving ForwardTomorrow

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