Ken Jennings Quotes

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

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• I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Forever

• Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Up
  • Want
  • Best

• For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Crisis
  • Humanitarian
  • Syrian

• I'm a writer, not a genre.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writer
  • Genre

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Jokester
  • Prankster

• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Effort
  • Language
  • Cinema

• As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Point

• The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • American
  • Slavery

• For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Believe
  • Religion

• I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Work
  • Think
  • Try

• Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Job
  • Wonder

• If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Age
  • You

• I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Literature
  • Italian
  • Heroes

• As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • Believe
  • Reading

• Unfortunately, I have dedicated my life to researching and recording the sad tale of the Baudelaire Orphans. There is no reason for you to dedicate yourself to such things, and you might instead dedicate yourself to letting this slippery book slip from your hands into a nearby trash receptacle, or deep pit.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Life
  • Book
  • Deep

• You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Weird

• That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Time
  • Running
  • Weird

• On-demand ridesharing can make cities less congested and polluted and free up resources. Shared rides can become so affordable that they cost the same as a bus ride today.

  

  Logan Green
  • Up
  • Today
  • Free

• I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • Weird