Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.
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The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.
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Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'
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My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.
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I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.
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Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.
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My fantasy is to break up the big banks. I wish we would end 'too big to fail' in our banking system.
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At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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Translation is our salvation: it draws us out of the well in which, entirely by chance, we are born.
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The consequence of shutting down the government was not healthy.
