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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Part of the great thing of looking back on how I went from the cattle ranch to the White House was, I was a country music DJ. I saw Garth Brooks perform for free in 1992 at the Colorado State Fair where I met this person who knew about this graduate school program.
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I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.
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I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.
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I'm certainly not going to play any of Matt Damon's roles in the future. But he will eventually grow into mine, since he'll be around for a long time.
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The first session of the Congress of the United States under the Constitution was devoted principally to the problems of immediate revenues and administrative and judicial organization.
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It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
