Jeopardy Quotes

• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, Power, Opposites

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

  Walt Whitman

  Umpires, Justice, Judging

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.385, NYU Press

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• Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Progress, World

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• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  Tab Hunter

  Workaholic

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• While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.

  Tom Segev

  Israel, Democracy, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  May, Palaces, Prison

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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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, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

  Ken Jennings

  Winning, Night, Trying

  "Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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• You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Happiness, Simple, Satisfaction

  "Kirsten Dunst: after the apocalypse" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact.

  Ken Jennings

  Jesus, Boys, Names

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• Programs like 'Jeopardy' and 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are ridiculous. They're the stupidest shows in history. They're making us dumber. They don't give us information, they give us facts, factoids. You don't learn who Napoleon was and how he was motivated. You learn what year he was born, and when he died. That's useless.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Giving, Useless

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

  Ken Jennings

  Watches, Boards, Physics

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• If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Risk, Why Not

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• I can't relax and sink back in the couch and watch 'Jeopardy!' the way I used to.

  Ken Jennings

  Relax, Watches, Way

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• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Rejection, Pay

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.

  Warren Farrell

  Weed, Teaching, Princess

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• The American dream is at jeopardy. This president [Obama] has defined the American dream as more dependence on the government. We need to restore the American dream so it's more about opportunity and growth and not redistribution.

  Bobby Jindal

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

  "Meet the Press Transcript". www.nbcnews.com. November 16, 2014.

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• I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Wall, Odds, Two

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• We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

  Howard Zinn

  United States, World, Want

  "Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. December 6, 2011.

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• You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Looks, Behind You

  Source: collider.com

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• In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so men's affairs did place women's economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put women's economic security in jeopardy.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Men, Role Models

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union to the jeopardy of successive experiments, in the chimerical pursuit of a perfect plan. I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Errors, Perfect

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.523, Penguin

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• During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

  Ken Jennings

  Flying, Secret, Trying

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• Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created an adult unrest against the inequities and injustices in the present system. If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

  William O. Douglas

  Mean, Opportunity, Government

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1970). “POINTS OF REBELLION”

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• I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.

  Jeanette MacDonald

  Drinking, Thinking, Years

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• I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

  Martha MacIsaac

  Night, Wheels, Watches

  "Talking About Dysfunctional Families with Martha MacIsaac". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. January 8, 2013.

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