David Lee Roth Quotes
It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
Quotes to Explore
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
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The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
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What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'
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How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.
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I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.
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It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.
