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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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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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.
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A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.
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My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
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They really wanted to find the chemistry.
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But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.
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It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
