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 don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.
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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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Growing up in east Tennessee gave me my country roots, my twang, and a lot of my stories.
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My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
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The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
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There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
