Jesse Ventura Quotes
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
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To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.
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Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.
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When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to 'Don't ask, don't tell.'
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.
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Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
