Alex Trebek Quotes
I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common.
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When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
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I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient.
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No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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And there are Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
