Dierks Bentley Quotes

I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

Dierks Bentley

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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Country
  • Think
  • Religious

• I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Believe
  • Words
  • Alone

• Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Mean
  • Advice
  • Stamp

• It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Government
  • Economic
  • Limits

• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • World
  • Home
  • Christmas

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Love

• When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Done
  • Better

• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Power
  • Me

• As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Worry

• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Her

• Strong women, that's who I really respect.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Respect

• Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Control

• For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, it's perfect. You don't have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. That's where it's found. It's found within you.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Trust

• There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

  

  Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Character
  • Education
  • Manners

• Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Great
  • Bad

• If I moved, he moved. If I stopped, he stopped. It was a duel.

  

  Jennifer Esposito

• I discovered early on that I was more of a strummer than a picker.

  

  Dierks Bentley