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 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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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.
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It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
