Chris Frantz Quotes
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I was a horrible student.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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As long as we decline to allow sick, uninsured people to just lie down and die on the side of the road, everybody has to have insurance for the health care system to work sanely.
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Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.
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I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters...In between two of the segments she asked me...'But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?' I said, 'Type faster.' This was widely quoted, but the 'six months' was changed to 'six minutes,' which bothered me. It's 'six months.'
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Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.
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It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
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I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
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I didn't actually grow up in London.
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I know it affected me when I saw certain actors growing up. I had a drama teacher that would take us to see plays in New York, and it was seeing James Earl Jones and Raul Julia - I mean, this guy comes from the place my mother comes from. He's doing Shakespeare right now, and it doesn't seem to matter that he has an accent.
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Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
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It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
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Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
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Every year, Planned Parenthood serves three million Americans - men and women - and one in five women will receive care at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her lifetime.
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Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.
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It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.
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It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.
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There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
