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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
David Lee Roth
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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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