Jesse Ventura Quotes

When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

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• Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Small
  • Hand

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Will

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Women
  • Heart
  • Man

• The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Today
  • Financial
  • Crisis

• Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing a magic show and I was the volunteer from the audience.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Magic
  • Doing
  • Volunteer

• Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Today

• On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Know
  • Nobody

• Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Half
  • Meeting
  • Rare

• I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fun

• Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

  

  J. D. Salinger

• A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• 'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She
  • Truth

• We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Model

• Computing is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Job

• Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Why

• You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.

  

  Bradley Cooper

• I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Think
  • Relationship

• The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Long
  • Country
  • House

• I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

  

  Max Irons

• I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Man

• When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000.

  

  Jesse Ventura