Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.
Quotes to Explore
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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Looks is a matter of perception. At Cannes, Europeans think I am good looking, while in India, I am not.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.
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A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
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When you’re young, hungry and stupid you’ll do whatever it takes.
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The Thyrans came on, as merciless as time.
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Everyday people are not very good designers.
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There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business.
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I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
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The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling them away and give those people new ones; then they may astonish everyone, for they learned their driving in a hard school. Some of the last will be first and some of the first will be last.
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From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.
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How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.
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Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.
