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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I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
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I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.
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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
