Alex Trebek Quotes

• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get.

  Alex Trebek

  Secret, Getting What You Want, Courses

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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.

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  Determination, Believe, Behave

  "What I've Learned: Alex Trebek". Esquire, March 2003.

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• Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.

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  Phrases, Answers, Form

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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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  Inspirational, Silence, Important

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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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  Past, Life Is, Can't Change

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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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  Successful, Challenges, Want

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• I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

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  Curious, Interest

  "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World". Book by A. J. Jacobs, September 21, 2004.

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• If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

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  Mother, Nature, Fear

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• We are all experts in our own little niches.

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  Encouraging, Experts, Littles

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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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  Sunset, Winning, Gambling

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• Learning something new is fun.

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  Fun, Learning Something New, Something New

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• Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course.

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  Luck, Importance, Courses

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• Saying that I've THOUGHT about it doesn't mean that I'm DOING it.

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  Mean

  "Alex Trebek, 71, says leaving 'Jeopardy' not in the cards, for now". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2012.

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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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• 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.

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  Stars, Jobs, Nice

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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, Matter, Impression

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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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  College, Oil, California

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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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  Sex, Important, Daily Life

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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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• 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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• 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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  Senior, Years, People

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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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  Senior, College, Years

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• My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

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  Musical, Development, Frank

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• I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

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  Sports, Drama

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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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  Two, Citizens, Week

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