30 Years Quotes

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

As a pastor I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the right hon. Gentleman for four and a half years.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.

All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.

If you've ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you'll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

All together, we know for many years that terror is the most dangerous thing for local, regional and international stability.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

I have a bad gambling problem. You're not in show business for 12 years and dress like this without a bad gambling problem.

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

The national unity government is a necessity in this country and I am happy to serve it. We have negotiated for months to create a government, but Belgium also went for a year without one.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.