Jesse Ventura Quotes

I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

Jesse Ventura

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• WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Experience
  • High

• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Live
  • Values

• The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Ever
  • Biggest
  • Award

• Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evidence
  • Weakness

• I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Black
  • Challenge

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Political
  • Vote
  • Become

• I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Work
  • Done
  • Giving

• I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrities

• The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • She
  • Mad

• I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Friends
  • View
  • Sarcastic

• Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Business
  • Write
  • First

• A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Good
  • Witty
  • Liberal

• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Like

• I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Table
  • Corner

• We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Will

• Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Advice

• Art lies because it's social.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Art
  • Lies

• Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Movie

• I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular fiction, they were usually the goofy neighbor next door, you know? And I just thought, 'Well, I know a lot of gay people, and they're just as varied as the heterosexual people I know.'

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • People
  • Gay
  • Door

• Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Society
  • Woman
  • Confidence

• Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal.

  

  Claire Cook
  • Game
  • Relationships
  • Anyway

• I'm not allowed on FOX, and I'm not allowed on MSNBC.

  

  Jesse Ventura