Alex Trebek Quotes

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

Alex Trebek

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• When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • College

• Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Ocean

• Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Careless

• It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • You
  • Human

• 'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fun

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sports

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Me
  • Band

• One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Think
  • Culture

• I never worked in an office in my life.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • World
  • Powerful

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Single

• In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • True
  • Promise

• The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Dollars

• Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.

  

  Karl Marx

• I just don't like to have bad energy with people.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • People
  • Bad
  • Energy

• It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important