Ken Jennings Quotes
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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There's no people like show people.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
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I'm not a Hollywood guy.
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I want to entertain, but I also want to push the barriers beyond what kids are conditioned into accepting.
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I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
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It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.
