Jesse Ventura Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced.
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You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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This is the kind of shit that would prompt Tyler Durden to hit somebody in the face.
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Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
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They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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Sarah Palin's a quitter.
