Quotes by Alex Trebek - Page 1

Learning something new is fun.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Fun
Learning Something New
Something New
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Daughter
Encouraging
Experts
Littles
Niche
Niches
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Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Answers
Form
Phrases
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My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
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Development
Died
Frank
Musical
Sinatra
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My heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.
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Heal
Seems
Speaks
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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Sports
Drama
Dramas
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Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Yourself
Job
Take
Too
Seriously
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What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale.
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Mother
Scales
Seconds
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Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.
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'Music Hop' in 1963 was my first hosting job of a variety program.
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Program
Variety
Hop
Hosting
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I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Curious
Interest
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I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
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Curious
Interest
Subjects
Even
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Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Courses
Importance
Luck
Course
Determining
Minimize
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I go through these cycles where I read a lot and then watch TV a lot.
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Cycles
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I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Might
Thinking
Time Thinking About
Spend
Whatsoever
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If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.
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Nature
Environmental
Fear
Awe
Mother
Mother Nature
Nature Mother Mother Nature
Nature Environmental Mother
Wrong
Nature Environmental Mother Nature
Something
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People say, 'You look to be in great shape for your age,' and I guess I am.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Age Great Look
People Say
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Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.
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Myself Better Care
Count
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Jim Cummings, Whoopie Goldberg & Cheech Marin make up this famous Disney threesome.
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I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.
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Jeopardy
Program
Contestant
Test
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It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Inspirational
Important
Should
Shut Up
Silence
Very
Afraid
Life Important Know
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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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Citizens
Two
Week
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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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Courses
Getting What You Want
Secret
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I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Apples
Computer
Internet
Play
Research
Spiders
Apple
Spider
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Hbo
Deadwood
Shakespeare
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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 Trebek / Television Personality
Behave
Believe
Determination
My Own
Will
Believe Me Will
Me
Make
Own
How
Observe
Tell
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My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.
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Can't Change
Life Is
Past
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I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!
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Brother
Impression
Matter
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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!
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Baseball
Beam
Quarters
Should
Above
Attic
Cap
Close
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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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Dollars
Gamble
Gambling
Give Me
Hundred
Losing
Pleasure
Sunset
Winning
Great Me Winning
Great Pleasure
Off
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I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.
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Game Shows
Jeopardy
Quiz
Shows
Special
Among
Game
Encourage
Makes
Ours
Tends
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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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Daily Life
Important
Sex
Admit
Daily
Unfortunately
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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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Broadcasting
College
Senior
Years
Fools
Hired
Junior
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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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California
College
Drilling
Host
Jeopardy
Oil
Central
Finish
Teaches
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My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.
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Knowledge
Answers
Bother
Understanding
Life I Am Me
Die
Achieved
Nowhere
Having
Least
My Life
Near
Quest
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Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.
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Challenges
Successful
Want
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Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.
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Announcing
Broadcasting
College Education
Radio Stations
Summer
Accident
Applied
Originally
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Jobs
Assistance
Atmosphere
Audience
Contestants
Guy
Nice
Nice Guy
Stars
Successful
Job
Best Me Will
Best Me Doing
Bit
Perform
Star
Perceived
Provide
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When you're in your 30s and actively pursuing a career and a home life, a wife and children, you're busy doing as opposed to busy thinking. As you get older, even as you don't have as much time, I think you tend to think more and reflect more on what is happening in your own life.
Alex Trebek / Television Personality
Busy
Home Life
Life Time Home
Actively
Happening
Opposed
Pursuing
Reflect
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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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Dad
Drinking
Thinking
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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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People
Senior
Years
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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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Answers
Lines
Mail
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