Dierks Bentley Quotes

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

Dierks Bentley

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• Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Famous

• Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Money
  • Today

• To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Smart
  • Crime
  • Looking

• I want to end up like Judi Dench. I want to have nice consistent work, doing lovely things, no matter how big or small they might be. I'd like to turn into a wise old thing.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• 'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Philanthropy

• I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Couple
  • Loved
  • Follow

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Moral
  • Humanitarian

• Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Love
  • Done
  • Why

• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • High
  • Support

• Business never rests.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Business

• To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

  

  Albert Finney
  • Life
  • Character
  • Deep

• Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people's human rights, securing the U.S. borders, recapturing escaped, enslaved Africans, and upholding racist, homophobic, and transphobic laws.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Control
  • Safety

• The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

  

  David Mamet
  • Political

• The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Simple

• And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

  

  Anita Loos
  • World
  • Alone
  • Star

• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Cost
  • Rate
  • Inflation

• Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh

• I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

  

  Dierks Bentley