Alex Trebek quotes
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“Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.”
-- Alex TrebekSource : "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.
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“The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get,”
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“It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.”
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“When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.”
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“What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.”
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“I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!”
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“Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.”
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“My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.”
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“People ask me, How would you do as a contestant on the show? And I tell them I would do fairly well among senior citizens, but against a good thirty-year-old I would have trouble because I cannot recall information as quickly as I used to. You used to say something and I would go, boom, right away, very sharp. Now it's like, Oh, yes, but wait a minute, uh, uh...”
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“Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.”
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“I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.”
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“Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.”
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“If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.”
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“My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.”
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“The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!”
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“You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!”
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“We are all experts in our own little niches.”
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“Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.”
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“I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.”
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“I'm curious about everything--even things that don't interest me.”
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“Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.”
-- Alex TrebekSource : "Alex Trebek, 71, says leaving 'Jeopardy' not in the cards, for now". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.
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“I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.”
-- Alex Trebek
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