Jesse Ventura Quotes
I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.
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They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
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Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.
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I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.
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If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
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I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.
