Alex Trebek Quotes
My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
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The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I lived somebody else's life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
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I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob.
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My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
