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When you see people who are really good at game shows, the one common attribute is a cool head under pressure: an ability to perform as well in the studio, surrounded by lights and noise, as you do on your couch. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#attribute #common #cool #couch #game

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#am #became #christianity #empire #execution

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#different people #different things #i #means #never

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#anything #anyway #cared #cuz #i

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#besides #buddy #caused #dead #felt

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity. ↗

— Voltaire

#charity #sacrifice #beauty

Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?' ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#canada #i #like #meet #never

I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#admit #comes #curiosity #full-on #getting

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?' ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#everyday #happen #having #i #life

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. ↗

— St. Jerome

#found #friend #hardly #kept #long