Jesse Ventura Quotes

I thought to myself, 'This is Harvard', You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is - what could be better? I loved it.

Jesse Ventura

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• It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Really

• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Face

• The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Person

• Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Progress
  • Chinese

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Job

• I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Album

• I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Me
  • Care
  • Wall

• In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Question
  • Best
  • Information

• I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Time
  • School
  • Potential

• I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Blessed

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • Trying
  • American

• A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • motivation
  • Champion

• No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Right
  • Neglect
  • Duties

• The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Great
  • Power

• That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say.That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • World
  • Fire

• Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Simplicity
  • Mountains

• For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Silence

• We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

  

  Van Jones
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Energy

• And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

  

  David Hockney

• It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Done
  • Film
  • Agents

• I thought to myself, 'This is Harvard', You expect Harvard to be this stuffy, arrogant place. But then you get here and see how bright everyone is - what could be better? I loved it.

  

  Jesse Ventura