Jesse Ventura Quotes

Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

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• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Rock
  • Woman
  • Motivated

• I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Work
  • Theatre

• Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Effort

• I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Life
  • Band
  • Rock

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Government
  • Politics
  • More

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Feel

• Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Hate
  • Gay

• So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Want
  • Religion
  • Expectations

• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Writing
  • Creativity
  • Mathematics

• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Brainy

• Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Histories

• Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • History
  • Think
  • Lose

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.

  

  John Milton
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be precise. These experiences opened my mind to the idea of a Creator and that caring for other living things was a Christian duty. My parents were not strongly religious at the time and when I announced at that youthful age that I wanted to be a priest, it not unnaturally provoked some incredulity, even mirth. In the same year, I became a vegetarian, which--for family and friends--was even more vexing.

  

  Andrew Linzey
  • Parents
  • Experiences
  • Creator

• What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Control

• European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Poverty

• Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens.

  

  Jesse Ventura