Dierks Bentley Quotes

Only in country music can you compare an old pickup truck and an old guitar to your wife and turn it into a love song... Thank God for country music.

Dierks Bentley

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LoveMusicGodWifeTruckSong

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

John G. D. Clark

LookEvolutionHumanTurnTellUs

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

ExperienceLanguageYouCreateGo

I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.

Sturgill Simpson

EverythingWhereJustRecordsKnew

'Jane Eyre' must have been something I read six or seven times as an early adolescent. And 'Kristin Lavransdatter,' and 'Lorna Doone' when I was younger. My parents had a pretty rich library, no jackets on any of the books, so no descriptions. You just pulled something off the shelf and started to read it.

Sue Miller

ParentsLibraryRichYouEarlyOff

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

TechnologySelf-DisciplineSkills

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.'

Robert Downey, Jr.

ParentsYouKnowDoneRightKid

I've had people ask me if it would have been easier to take care of your parents if you had siblings, and I think it's 50/50. I know people who have siblings, and there is a lot of acrimony because somebody always feels that they are doing more than the other person.

Roz Chast

ParentsPeopleMeThinkCareDoing

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Rudolf Steiner

LiveManChaosFreeBecomeRhythm

Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to live in is borderline between village and the city, so I'm familiar with the rustic environment.

Bong Joon-ho

LiveSchoolCityEndVillageLived

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Antonio Tabucchi

PerfectionIdeasDictatorsDoctrines

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

Willie Nelson

MusicMeGolfYouPlayWant

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Phil Klay

WarJustNecessaryOtherHumans

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