Ken Jennings Quotes
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
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You know I grew up on the Batman movies, and they had some terrific actors in, but you know a lot of the other ones - it wasn't always the case that you had people the caliber of Jeff Bridges or Robert Downey, so to kind of show up and work with Jeremy Renner or Robert or with Mark Ruffalo, any of them, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, the caliber of people you're acting with, to me, is really fun. From the first day I started doing scenes with Robert, it's been one of the funnest experiences I've ever had.
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It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
