Dierks Bentley Quotes

A typical day for me on tour is a marathon - it's like five days rolled into one.

Dierks Bentley

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• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

  

  Gary Owens
  • School
  • High
  • Military

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Men
  • Remember

• I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • World
  • Work
  • Why

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • You
  • Easy
  • Ears

• I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.

  

  Larry King
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Decisions

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Challenge
  • Enjoy

• I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • World
  • Parents

• Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Together
  • Movie

• I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Spend
  • Useful

• The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Up
  • History
  • Small

• As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone.

  

  Karl Marx

• Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there, But can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side!

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time

• People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • People

• Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Success
  • Gift
  • Fickle

• There are countless times where you're trying to channel somebody who's not there, but that's what you have to do. But Audrey Geisel, who has executive produced this film and Horton, and who works remarkably close with me, is a great source of information. (The Simpsons creator) Matt Groening once told me that one of the most important roles that he fulfills on The Simpsons is being the keeper of the integrity of the original vision.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Film

• An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Work
  • Author
  • Rights

• The people from Prague and other Czechs should be whipped who speak half Czech and half German (...) And who could enumerate how the Czech language has already been corrupted, so that the true Czech hears they speak, but he does not understand them. And from that arises envy, anger, conflict, strife and Czech humiliation.

  

  Jan Hus
  • People
  • True
  • German

• A typical day for me on tour is a marathon - it's like five days rolled into one.

  

  Dierks Bentley