Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

By keeping your eye on the ultimate goal, you lean into the mess and try to make the outcome a little better.

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• Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Beautiful

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • May
  • Government
  • Efficiency

• I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Money
  • New

• I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Mayor
  • Kentucky

• I got the famous Oprah hug!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Famous
  • Got
  • Hug

• Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Famine
  • Starvation

• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Action
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Dare
  • Ever

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • Bank
  • West

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Change
  • Wish
  • Child

• I really enjoyed working with New Zealanders as crew members, as teammates. They're great, and it's a beautiful country. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, and I've traveled quite a bit.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • World
  • Done
  • Think

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  

  Ovid
  • Reason
  • Now
  • Instinct

• If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Black
  • Lawyers

• People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Saying

• If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Girl

• Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  

  Dave Allen
  • Giving
  • Running
  • Sleep

• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Culture

• Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • School
  • Feeling
  • Mom

• By keeping your eye on the ultimate goal, you lean into the mess and try to make the outcome a little better.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry