Dierks Bentley Quotes
Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and the power to regulate and get corporate funding out of political campaigns.
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It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
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I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
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Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.
