Ken Jennings Quotes
Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
Ken Jennings
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I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
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If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Caitlyn Jenner
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
Manny Farber
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
Pat Barker
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
Irma S. Rombauer
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
Wangari Maathai
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
Lasse Hallstrom
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I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of characters, but growing up. You're in really adult situations at a young age, as far as being in charge of people.
Adam Driver
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The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime Israel, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
Leonard Cohen
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
Marissa Mayer
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When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the most beautiful moments, hands down, of my life.
Ann Dowd
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I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.
Johnny Depp
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
Yaya Toure
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The absurd man is he who never changes.
Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy
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Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.
Ken Jennings
