Jesse Ventura Quotes
My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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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.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.
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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.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes, if the people in your life really drag you down, you need to stop spending time with them.
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I was a tomboy.
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I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little-not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell.
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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
