David Lee Roth Quotes
I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50...
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
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People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.
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My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control.
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You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.
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I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50...
