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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I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
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I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
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My favorite job, and definitely the one that means the most to me, is 'Queer Eye.'
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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I do breakfast first, which is a small bowl of oatmeal and some sort of protein, like hard-boiled eggs. And then I work out - 40 minutes of cardio and maybe some strength training.
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The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
