Alex Trebek Quotes
The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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Money just draws flies.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
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I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'
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Children especially deserve our support after they are rescued from those who have victimized them.
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The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!
