Dierks Bentley Quotes

When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

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• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Man
  • Study
  • Search

• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Research
  • Reaction

• No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Different
  • Important
  • Change

• One Hundred Year Starship really is about the idea that is we pursue an extraordinary tomorrow; we'll build a better world today.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Today
  • Year

• I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Want

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Life
  • President
  • Prison

• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Me
  • Wants
  • Heroic

• I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Business
  • Think
  • Model

• If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Children
  • High
  • Heels

• Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Service

• Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

  

  Pat Brown
  • Work
  • May
  • Problem

• Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.

  

  Chuck D
  • Stupid

• Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Chance

• When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Fight
  • Guns

• When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.

  

  Dierks Bentley