Jesse Ventura Quotes

You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

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• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Very

• I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Know
  • Down
  • Leverage

• Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Why
  • Question

• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  

  Dana Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Winning

• Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the academy.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • Physics
  • Economists

• Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Party

• Sometimes people like to ask me why should girls go to school, why is it important for them. But I think the more important question is why shouldn't they, why shouldn't they have this right to go to school.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Important
  • School

• The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Law

• It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • May
  • Faith

• The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Freedom
  • Simple

• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • May
  • Team
  • Perception

• Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

  

  Maripol
  • Sister

• The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

  

  Heber J. Grant
  • People
  • Principles
  • Gospel

• I write pretty often. I have a home studio. Music is what I do for fun. I never get tired of it, so to take a break from [TV and movies], I would go make some music.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Home
  • Fun

• Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.

  

  Xunzi
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Passion

• Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Ignorance

• You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders.

  

  Jesse Ventura