Alex Trebek Quotes
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
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If you want to direct, you've got to work.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I leave home about 7 in the morning.
