Dierks Bentley Quotes
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.
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A glimpse heavenward at a constellation or even at a single star only suggests infinity; actually our vision is limited. We cannot perceive unlimited space; it is immeasurable. The universe, as we know it through our visual experience, is limited. It first came into existence with the formation of matter, and will end with the complete dissolution of matter.
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Anyone who is a Palestinian citizen, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, should decide together in a very free referendum. There is no need for war. There is no need for threats or an atom bomb either.
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If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
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Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
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So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
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Doing less films is sometimes intentional, but sometimes things just don't work out.
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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?
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In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.
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I can act... well, kind of. I'm comfortable in front of a camera.
