David Lee Roth Quotes
Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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I have copies of the books my grandfather illustrated for Scribner's in each house. I read those books all the time.
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
