Jesse Ventura Quotes
I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.
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I just feel like a kid that has some money now, that can take care of my family... I think I'll always be a kid. I'm always messing around, always running around, always trying to have a good time.
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I've jumped out of an airplane 34 times. I've dove 212 feet under water. I've done a lot of things that defied death.
