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CONAN O'BRIEN CBS failed with David Lee Roth and they can't afford to take any more chances.
BOB BURKE The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
ALEX VAN HALEN It used to be that you would hunt on the weekends. Nowadays, we love it so much and it's our little ...
BRIAN GLENN Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks ...
CHRIS CORNELL I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.
KEVIN GATES It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concer...
CLARENCE CLEMONS David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon...
EDDIE VAN HALEN You get to the rink, stretch for 10-15 minutes, go on the ice 20 minutes before practice starts and ...
HENRIK LUNDQVIST I can put a system in in about 20 minutes. The average person may take about an hour or so.
KATHLEEN PATTERSON He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
EDWIN EDWARDS That's actually quite high. I do think people in small town Iowa love to talk about their town. On p...
KERRY AGNITSCH I don't think we played well in the first 20-25 minutes, but after we settled down, things got a bit...
KAREN FERGUSON They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes...
JOE ALLBAUGH Replacing Stern on the radio is like replacing John Lennon in the Beatles. And it's even harder beca...
MICHAEL HARRISON I love the weather in L.A., and I can drive 20 minutes to the beach, hike minutes from my house or g...
JUD TYLOR We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
ERYKAH BADU We talked about it before the game, to get a good start. They didn't play their best and we got a co...
HENRIK SEDIN We just have to play 20 minutes and follow it up with another 20 minutes in the second half.
MEL THOMAS I think it (Conservation 20/20) is the best thing (Lee County) has ever done.
DAVE BAKER I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand ...
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH Word got out. He only got two cookies. The rest went in 20 minutes.
DEBBIE DECARLO LAYLA: "You boinked Lilith."
ROTH: "Boinked?" Roth chuckled under his breath and then said, "Go...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Not only do we deliver the newscast every 20 minutes and half an hour, but we also have interviewees...
VIRGINIA GARCIA We made it difficult for ourselves. We're three-nil up and cruising and then we have 20 minutes wher...
MIKE DEVANEY When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each ni...
BUDDY HACKETT There's a lot of disappointment and sadness for David and his family, obviously.
ALAN CHVOTKIN About twenty-minutes before the tornado got here, we got down in our basement.
DEBBIE EATON Before the whole Disney realm had undergone this huge revamping, as a kid, I always saw myself doing...
DEBBY RYAN 'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
TAYLOR SWIFT I think Wisconsin is the best team we have played this year over 60 minutes. I thought that our club...
JERRY YORK The game started just about a half hour before their usual bedtime of 7:30. I'm thrilled we got to s...
JOE MCCARTHY We let ourselves down in the opening 20 minutes. We didn't get balls forward quickly enough and they...
JOHN ADSHEAD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We certainly did a good job for the first 20 minutes, but for whatever reason we just didn't play we...
DAN TOBIAS I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
GARRY SHANDLING I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying...
SAMMY HAGAR The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terri...
LARRY COHEN We really don't know what happened. The last time we saw him was like 15 to 20 minutes before, and h...
ELLIOT COHEN My hat goes off to David Gomez and Quincy Davis, both of whom kept fighting the last 20 minutes of t...
DAVE DICKERSON Read for 20 minutes,
reflect for 20 minutes,
write for 20 minutes,
repeat...
R.A.DELMONICO Back then the shows were maybe 50 or 60 minutes, whereas now, they're like an hour and 20 minutes. W...
JEFF FATT We didn't find out until we were on the plane for 20 minutes where we were going. I don't want to ju...
FERNANDO MARTINEZ It's a huge disappointment, obviously. I don't think the better team won.
CARMINDA RANCHES Villach is in the southern part of the country, 20 minutes from Italy and Slovenia. We got a day off...
JASON KROG I will say this was a huge trial 20-thousand women all together so I think its pretty significant ev...
DR. LEONA DOWNEY On school nights I practice 45 minutes to an hour, depending on how much homework I've got.
COLIN BROWN I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level...
RIC FLAIR Its kind of nice only having to go 15 minutes for a tournament game instead of an hour.
JOE BALESTRACCI We got what we deserved after our first 20 minutes, so we have no complaints ... it isn't going to c...
CRAIG BELLAMY Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere ...
MURRAY WALKER It might be a few days before he returns to his full work level ... his 20-hour day.
ILAN COHEN I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a...
JOHN KRASINSKI She got 24 against Lee. I talked to the Lee coach (Bill Boyd), and he said they just couldn't handle...
HARRY MASCH (Christianson) had never been ocean fishing before, but he learned real quick, ... He's a big guy, a...
ERIC OLSEN I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
SUZE ORMAN I go into the gym and do 75 pullups, 75 dips, 150 squats, 150 pushups, and then 20 minutes of ab wor...
CHARLIE HUNNAM The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stre...
STEFAN ZWEIG I was a huge David Letterman fan, even going back to when he was on NBC. My parents would only let m...
TREVOR MOORE Usually people stay 20 minutes in an exhibit. And if people stay an hour in an exhibit, you're doing...
DIANE PERLOV If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last thre...
ROBERT MCCHESNEY So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him...
STEVE BURTON I once had a job in a orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate.
ANONYMOUS The best songs I write in 20 minutes.
EVAN DANDO Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a ni...
DIMEBAG DARRELL I've played Albuquerque before. I was there with my college band Loaded; I think we played the Launc...
DUFF MCKAGAN When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
JACKIE CHAN We were probably there (at the accident scene) 20 minutes.
DALE ARMSTRONG Its the story of our season. We dig ourselves a hole. If we could just eliminate the first 20 minute...
DEREK CANGELLO We can't be out there for nearly 20 minutes when there is only 24 minutes in a half.
MAURICE JACKSON We started poorly, but reacted well and after 20 minutes, we did okay,
DAVE ANDERSON I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.
DAVE GROHL When it started appearing on the news, on 20/20 , straight edge got its black eye.
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LUKE PASQUALINO We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting ...
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RICHIE SAMBORA I do love America. And LA is a very short commute to America its like half an hour on the plane.
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DAN TREASE If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if ...
WOODROW T. WILSON Don't forget to check the turkey every 20 minutes just to keep some water in the pan, so that the tu...
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SHAWN MILLER I do yoga three times a week, and I walk for a half hour every day. In between, I get on the ellipti...
SUZANNE SOMERS I'm not a huge fan of eye shadow. You spend 20 minutes working on it and then make one mistake a...
BETHANY MOTA To lose that game was a huge disappointment but also a huge surprise. We just felt that it wasn't su...
JULIUS WHITTIER I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
NATHAN LANE We can do like 100 shirts in almost 20 minutes.
MATT DERA Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation
KAHLIL GIBRAN Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, ver...
CHARLES DICKENS As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night...
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BRIAN MITCHELL When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Som...
RANDI WEINGARTEN [NBC had better hope so. After TNT's largely NBC-produced coverage of the first two rounds, NBC will...
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GENEEN ROTH When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
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VERONICA ROTH Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
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that she is go...
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VERONICA ROTH But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mothe...
VERONICA ROTH I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
VERONICA ROTH Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

I r...
VERONICA ROTH The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
VERONICA ROTH If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH The person you became with her is worth being.
VERONICA ROTH Change, like healing, takes time.
VERONICA ROTH You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I t...
VERONICA ROTH I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
VERONICA ROTH She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done f...
VERONICA ROTH I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
VERONICA ROTH I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of y...
TIM ROTH Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
PHILIP ROTH When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going t...
ELI ROTH Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with w...
PHILIP ROTH Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-ge...
ELI ROTH You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes ...
TIM ROTH 'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. I...
ELI ROTH In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ...
VERONICA ROTH I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Daunt...
VERONICA ROTH