Ken Jennings Quotes
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.Ken Jennings
Quotes to Explore
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
Ted Rall -
I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
Larry Hovis -
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten -
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp -
In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
Saffron Burrows
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
Adam Peaty -
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor -
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp -
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler -
When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
Dak Prescott -
When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
J. J. Watt
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
Kailash Kher -
No person is just one particular emotion.
Octavia Spencer -
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden -
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg -
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
Garth Stein -
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
Ian Williams Battles -
Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney -
Is being an idiot like being high all the time?
Janeane Garofalo -
History teaches, but it has no pupils.
Antonio Gramsci -
You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
Ken Jennings