Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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I'm interested in non-fiction, but a form of it which is very badly behaved, which doesn't define itself as straight-ahead journalism or memoir. It blurs boundaries, plays fast and loose with the truth - not to be silly, whimsical or lazy, but to get greater purchase on what it feels like to be alive.
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'The Road' was a movie that has a good reputation, even though it wasn't released very well, but that's a movie I'm very proud of.
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Respect and a gentlemanly character - those are marks of a Nebraskan.
