Ken Jennings Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
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I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
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Cruel necessity.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
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When the show is over we still have to pay our rent, we have to buy food. We have to do all the same things that you do.
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I would stare at maps of Delaware for hours.
