Ken Jennings Quotes
During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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I advise everyone to find an island in this life. Find a place where this culture can't take energy away from you, sap your will and originality. Since anything physical can be mental, that island can be your home. Turn off the electromagnetic waves being forced upon you, the countless invisible forces coming at you all the time.
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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
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One of the big things right now is the DJ is a spectacle, isn't it? You have the enormous light show, smoke, explosions, and fire. There's a dude with a USB stick playing somewhere in there, but the spectacle is created out of lights and lasers and whatever. The original idea of DJing - being a shadowy figure in the corner while people were having a party - is not the one that makes money and is massively popular internationally.
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I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.
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During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
