Dierks Bentley Quotes
You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I choose to express myself.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.
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I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.
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What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.
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There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
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One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.
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You can't write about stuff you don't know about. You have to live it. You have to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. Live life to be a good songwriter.
