Jeff Fortenberry Quotes
The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
