Dierks Bentley Quotes
It's Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name - my sister, my brother. So from day one, I've always been called Dierks.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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You have to follow that next step.
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We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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At home I keep things simple with fish, pasta and soups and am often preparing stuff for the family.
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Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
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I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.
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It's Frederick Dierks Bentley, but my whole family goes by their middle name - my sister, my brother. So from day one, I've always been called Dierks.
