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I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

Jesse Ventura

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Jesse Ventura
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 15
Film Actor
Peace Activist
Politician
Professional Wrestler
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Sports Commentator
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?
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I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.
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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
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If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.
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I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.
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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.
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Al Gore in 2000. He got a half a million more votes than George Bush and lost. How can that be? It's ridiculous. It's an elitist system. It's so they pick your President. You don't - the people - and it needs to be abolished.
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The pleasure was all yours.
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I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.
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You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, Halt or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.
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You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
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Let's face it: WikiLeaks exists because the mainstream media haven't done their job.
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Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?
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I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
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If you stand for peace in the USA, you're lucky to be alive.
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Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.
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I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
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There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.
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