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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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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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 really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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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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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
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He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
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If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.… The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.
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You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
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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.
