Jesse Ventura Quotes

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
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• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
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• I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
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• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
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• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  

  Adam Osborne
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• By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
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• I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

  

  Rachel Stevens
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• The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• I didn't go to drama school, so I feel like I did all my growing up on 'Hollyoaks.'

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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• In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

  

  Foster Friess
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• For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on 'White Collar' over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

  

  Matt Bomer
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• What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

  

  George Peter John Criscuola Kiss
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• Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

  

  Anthony Fauci
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• It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.

  

  Chad Kelly
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• My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and people here are so into the food. It's one of the most exciting food cities in the country.

  

  Daniel Humm
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• If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

  

  Jesse Ventura
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