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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Health care is something that prisoners have a right to, you know? They don't get to pick and choose whether or not you get this health care plan and this health care plan. It's provided to you by the prison. The prison has a responsibility to provide you with necessary health care, and trans health care is necessary.
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The most challenging work and the best work I've ever done was in a thing I did for PBS called 'Lemon Sky', a play by Lanford Wilson. I think it's the rawest, most complex work that I've had to do, and the thing I'm most proud of.
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I never say someone is powerful.
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I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
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The vast majority of fantasy football fans, myself included, revel in the absurdity of it all.
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The strong arm of government should not force Americans to buy health-care products that they have reasoned objections to.
