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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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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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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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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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?
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If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have a question answered for you before you ask it.
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We have peered into a new world and have seen that it is more mysterious and more complex than we had imagined. Still more mysteries of the universe remain hidden. Their discovery awaits the adventurous scientists of the future. I like it this way.
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If my mother gets help from it, then I will enter politics.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.
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There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
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A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
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If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.
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My four years as governor, I never met with a lobbyist once, never. Not one lobbyist got in my office.
