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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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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It is because we are predominantly purposeful beings that we are perpetually correcting our immediate sensations. But men are free not to be utilitarianly purposeful. They can sometime be artists, for example. In which case they may like to accept the immediate sensation uncorrected, because it happens to be beautiful.
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Tu dolor es tan grande que no debiera dolerte.
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Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.
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I have never met a document I don't like.
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People suit their star sign. If someone is annoying me over and over, and I know they're a Sagittarius, say, I'm more likely to forgive them. It comes down to my need for structure as a way of finding my bearings with people.
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The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.
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A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
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Sarah Palin's a quitter.
