Alex Trebek Quotes
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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I always believed that I had to pretend to be happy. But what I've learned is that it doesn't matter what race or class or demographic you come from. I truly believe that sadness is relative.
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That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
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I think gay people are like blondes: There're fewer of them but they have more fun.
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I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.
