Jesse Ventura Quotes

There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

Jesse Ventura

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• I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Challenge

• The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Reality
  • Always
  • Follow

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

  

  Zendaya
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Vision

• My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Focus
  • Priority
  • Strategy

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something

• I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Interesting
  • Energy
  • Day

• Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Arguments
  • Vulgar
  • Convincing

• I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Together
  • Political

• I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Nice
  • Comedy
  • Moral

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Forgiveness

• I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Government
  • Care

• I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Past
  • Training
  • Injuries

• Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Science

• I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Understanding

• I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Men
  • Country
  • Boy

• I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Page

• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Author
  • Danger

• With a stage play, they can't cut a word; you can be in rehearsals every day, you cast it, you cast the director, too; the amount of control for a playwright is almost infinite, so you have that control over the finished product.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Control

• There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

  

  Jesse Ventura