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David Lee Roth Quotes

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

David Lee Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 10, 1954

Topics

New York Hat City You Down Street

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.

John C. Reilly

Heart Blues Play Band Misery Did

In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.

Maysoon Zayid

Lion Win Think Thought Voting Out

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

John Niven

Nature Winter Great Food Me Stop

We are being entertained all the time - in the bathroom, on the train, in our beds. Sure, there is a smaller audience for theater. But we know from radio that entertainment never goes away, it just changes. And more power to it.

Mike Nichols

Power Time Train Know Bathroom More

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Kind Never Thrown Hilarious Sport

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Dixie Carter

Learning Children Child Parents

People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.

Dick Gregory

Life Change Style People Pressure

In a sea of millions of people, you really have to set yourself apart to make a statement.

Bobby Berk

Sea Yourself People You Statement

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

Family Choose Blood My Own Always

It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.

Ansel Elgort

You Important Way Right Everything

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing tonight?' I'm sitting home watching it. But it's OK. But if you go to Europe, there are a lot of young, independent labels that's doing soul music. You might call them retro because they're young and they're trying to imitate somebody. But I ain't retro.

Sharon Jones

Home Music Time Soul Doing You

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

Thomas More

Honor Honorable Profitable Would