Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.
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Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.
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Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.
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I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.
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The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
