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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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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It is not the time spent with the child at their activity that is going to produce the highest level athlete. It is in supporting the child in an organized activity - and Bill alluded to this - so the child can find what they truly like to do and let them go.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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You feel that nothing you have learned has put down roots, that while you’re capable of entering the magical universe, you cannot remain submerged in it. You feel that all of this may be nothing but a fantasy dreamed up by people to fend off their fear of death.
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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
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The house is a factory.
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Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.
