David Lee Roth Quotes
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.
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I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
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You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
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Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.
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Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
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They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change... I don't have sympathy, no.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!