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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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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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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I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.
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I got picked for very unique and independent filmmaking experiences with auteurs. And I'm so lucky.
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If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.
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In films, you work for three to six months, and you're out of the character. But for a daily soap, you don't have that luxury. So the character has to be convincing. Otherwise, your mind is not in it, and you're just working for money, which is a good amount in serials. But I want both: good acting and good money.
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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.
