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Quote by Ken Jennings
You watch an old Jeopardy! and the categories alone are very plain

You watch an old Jeopardy! and the categories alone are very plain. Poetry, or Movies, or Physics. If you watch it now, though, therell be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions. – Ken Jennings

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When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch. – Ken Jennings

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The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you cant know. And so its not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds. – Ken Jennings

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design
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If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, Im sort of screwed. Im going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time. – Ken Jennings

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It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. – Jenny Holzer

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We talk a lot on Biggest Loser about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. Im always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music. – Alison Sweeney

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People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone. – Luke Ford

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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau

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The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. – Gerard Piel

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The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones — which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. – Sydney J. Harris

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Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character. – Richard Hammond

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