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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Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
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For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. I don't want it to be balanced and ordinary.
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.
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The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
