Dierks Bentley Quotes

I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

Dierks Bentley

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• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
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• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
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• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
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• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Men
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• I love America a lot. I really do.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Love
  • America
  • Really

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
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• We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
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• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  

  Karl Jaspers
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• If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Time
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• When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Water
  • Deep
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• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Trying
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• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
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• Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Technology
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• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
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• What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  

  William Blake
  • Talent
  • Eternity
  • Confusion

• If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Waiting
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• Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not what kinds of unions are accepted in the civil arena.

  

  Jared Polis

• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
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• The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.

  

  Mian Muhammad Mansha
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• I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other shows where I'm like, 'Take a sip of the Ole Smoky Moonshine and just let it be natural and cross your fingers that you say the right things.'

  

  Dierks Bentley