Jesse Ventura Quotes
There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.
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The Idealization of deep flaws seeping through coiled cracks;The reality we all want to avoid is a plagued sickness we choose to live with.
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society.
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The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
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There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
