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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In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
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A big lie is more plausible than truth.
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Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.
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And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.
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Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
