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Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
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I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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