David Lee Roth Quotes
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
Quotes to Explore
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
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Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it.
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I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.
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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
