Jesse Ventura Quotes
I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'
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I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.
