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.

Ken Jennings

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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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Strive
  • Conquer

• 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.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Night
  • End
  • Doing

• The Devil is a woman.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Devil

• I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.

  

  Larry Page
  • Long

• I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars.

  

  Eminem
  • Moon

• In sober state,Through the sequestered vale of rural life,The venerable patriarch guileless heldThe tenor of his way.

  

  Beilby Porteus
  • Life

• There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Great
  • Fool

• I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Up
  • Fake

• I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Guy

• I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Star

• I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Life
  • Moon

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.

  

  Mario Teguh
  • God
  • Believe
  • Strong

• When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Good
  • Period

• I'm a bigger fan of my directing than in acting. Acting is just harder. You know, not harder, per se, because directing is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. But it's harder to enjoy my work as an actor, you know.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • Work

• Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Poor
  • Stuck
  • Yesterday

• Every generation of Americans who has fought, every generation of Americans who has served, has suffered.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Generation
  • Americans
  • Suffered

• 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.

  

  Ken Jennings