Ken Jennings Quotes
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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We just here to do our job.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I want to be an activist professor.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
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In order to have a great rivalry, both teams have to be winning some games. Lately against Dallas, we haven't been able to do that, ... Until we start doing that, it's kind of hard to have a modern-day rivalry.
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The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.
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I know that when you are experiencing failure, it's pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don't think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
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It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
