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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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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I'm not incapable of going through things.
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
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'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience.
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And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
