Alex Trebek Quotes
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
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Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.
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You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
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Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
