Jesse Ventura Quotes

My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

Jesse Ventura

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• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.

  

  Ian Millar
  • She
  • Remember
  • Wife

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • Done
  • May

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Government
  • Media

• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Political
  • More

• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Take

• I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • Success
  • Giving

• I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Doors
  • Hot

• Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Intellectual

• The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Law
  • Government
  • Building

• If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • America
  • Want
  • Attention

• Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?

  

  Karl Marx
  • Good
  • Petty

• We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

  

  Dannel Malloy
  • Country
  • Children
  • School

• Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.

  

  William Kristol
  • Country
  • Should
  • Order

• Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.

  

  C. D. Broad
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Philosophical

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• It's grossly unfair to judge Walter Payton solely on the yards he gains. He is a complete football player, better than Jim Brown, better than O.J. Simpson.

  

  Jim Finks
  • Football
  • Player
  • Judge

• My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.

  

  Jesse Ventura