Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
I'm proud to be able to represent Bellevue and the Offutt and StratCom communities.
Quotes to Explore
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I feel that, for each show I've been doing, there's a character that dominates. Then in the next show it plays a smaller part, and then in the next it has a sort of cameo piece. So they all have their moment.
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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.
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The best advice I can give people when they buy Burgundy, which is a bit of a roulette game, is to look for producers who are tried and true... Look for the name of the producer, whether Michel Lafarge, Domaine Leflaivre, Dominique Lafont, or another. When they put their name on the bottle, they're proud.
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One person cannot be blamed for years of problems as it relates to race in America. This is something that has been with us since the founding of this nation. I mean, we were founded with slaves.
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I'm proud to be able to represent Bellevue and the Offutt and StratCom communities.
