Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

Jeff Fortenberry

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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.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• 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.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Judge
  • Audience
  • Decisions

• 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.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Experience
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • College
  • Start
  • Changes

• 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?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Impossible
  • Selling

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Everyone
  • Huge
  • Nirvana

• '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.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Grow
  • Finding
  • Exploring

• 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.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• 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.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • People
  • Belief
  • Islam

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• 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.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Me

• That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Father
  • Black

• Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among those who hate.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Hate
  • Joy

• To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

  

  Jitin Prasada
  • Party
  • Star
  • Leadership

• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • House
  • Leadership