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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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.
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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
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Most of my friends, growing up, were upper-middle-class white kids, so it was a different reality at home both culturally and linguistically. It created a lot of insecurities for me, but it also did a lot of amazing things that I didn't know were happening at the time.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
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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.
