Jeopardy Quotes

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

  Tyron Woodley

  Mma, Risk, Why Not

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

  Thomas Carper

  Firefighter, Effort, Safe

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• It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'

  Robert Byrd

  America, People, Liberty

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• Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

  Warren Spahn

  Funny Baseball, Fastballs

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• By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Quaker, Backgrounds

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• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Yesterday, Race, Times Like These

  Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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• I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with [...] what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

  Shane Warne

  Couple, People, Choices

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• And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Media, Position

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• Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Winning, Civilization, Would Be

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• Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death

  Peter Cochrane

  Running, Focus, Mind

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• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy

  Oliver North

  Iran, People, Want

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• Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.

  Charles Thomas Jackson

  Science, Careers, Support

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• In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Strong Women, Done, Horror

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