"It's boring to have the same guy win.……" — Ken Jennings
"It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself."
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33 Quotes by Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings has 33 quotes on this site.
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch…
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There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to…
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Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever…
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Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
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Sure I have a cell-phone, so I don't have to remember everyone's number anymore, but that really wasn't a core…
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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night,…
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For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
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I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.
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Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
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There’s just something hypnotic about maps.
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The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing...
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
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A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of…
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
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I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
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There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One…
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When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con…
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Encouraging self-sufficiency must be a bedrock for our immigration policy, with the goal of reducing poverty, strengthening the family, and…
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