David Lee Roth Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.
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I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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There were six kids in our family, and I grew up fast. I had to do a lot of things on my own. I was a rebellious teenager. That's why coming into the film business was good for me because it gave me some discipline. Once I became an actor, I had to grow up a little more.
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This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.
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Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
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I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
