Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

Jeff Fortenberry

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• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Planning
  • Plan

• Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Experience
  • Often

• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Band

• I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Down

• Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Point
  • I Can

• I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Morning
  • Juice
  • Squeeze

• I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Choices
  • Books
  • Consumers

• We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • War
  • Past

• I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Guide
  • Once
  • Tour

• This mass shootings just doesn't happen in other countries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Countries
  • Mass
  • Shootings

• I hold strongly to my identity as a Chicago artist and want to do whatever I can to participate in creating a strong community here so that artists don't feel pressure to move somewhere else to succeed.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Strong
  • Community
  • Identity

• I never had any technical training. I never considered that, one day, I'm going to be Beyonce like a lot of girls aspire to be. It just kind of happened.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Training

• There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is.

  

  Kathryn Hahn
  • Husband

• I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Time

• You know, I always say this - As an actor, we're lucky to get a job. Then we're lucky that anybody gives a damn to watch the thing that we're in.

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • Job

• When I look at a woman through my camera, I see her with complete admiration and appreciation of her beauty, strength, and power - and that's how I do my best to represent her.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Power
  • Appreciation

• People seem to think of me as a goody-goody who never curses, but I can be very nasty if I'm pushed. Cross me too many times, and I'll never talk to you again.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • People
  • Nasty

• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

  

  Norman Mailer
  • Growth
  • Motion
  • Depend

• 'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • She
  • Understanding

• We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turnover means the product will most likely be fresh. And if the cornmeal is organic, all the better.

  

  Jeremy Jackson
  • High
  • Community

• Government has a rightful role, but not an excessive role, to play.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry