Dierks Bentley Quotes
I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I tell you very honestly, 1 billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica.
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Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.
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Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
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It's time to believe in what you know.
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Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
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I never want to lose the audience's attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music.
