Jesse Ventura Quotes

Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • House
  • Wish

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• I broke things to get attention.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Attention
  • Things
  • Broke

• I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • World
  • Home
  • Kids

• In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Low-Key

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Own
  • Oil

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Christmas

• Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Energy
  • New

• Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Write
  • Problems
  • Down

• Obviously, it's going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues, and Jerusalem will be part of those negotiations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up

• There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking

• Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Up
  • Help
  • Fence

• I've been dreaming of a time whenThe English are sick to death of Labour and ToriesAnd spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes himAnd will salute him forever.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Time
  • Death
  • Forever

• If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Risk

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Different
  • Start
  • Gender

• A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

  

  William Shatner
  • World
  • Tree
  • Curiosity

• Short-cuts lead to long delays.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • Long
  • Cutting
  • Delay

• If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Pleasure
  • Mankind

• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  

  Jesse Ventura