Ken Jennings Quotes
For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'
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The Devil is a woman.
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars.
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In sober state,Through the sequestered vale of rural life,The venerable patriarch guileless heldThe tenor of his way.
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There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.
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I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
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I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.
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I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.
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It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.
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It took me a while to get over 'Highway'. I started living the character of 'Veera' very closely. I don't think I would be able to give so much to a character the way I did with her.
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The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
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Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,-imported by Madame de Staël, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,-"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land; to the English that of the sea; to the Germans that of-the air!" Richter: German humorist & prose writer.
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For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.
