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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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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Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.
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I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'
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Getting books out into the world helps us all.
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Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.
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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.
