30 Years Quotes
When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out, because there'd be a new crop of comics coming up all the time, every 10 years or so.
Racing Stripes was so much fun to do. It's one of the funniest movies I've seen in a couple years.
I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.
Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.
The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.
Why did the 14-year old Mexican girl end up pregnant? Because her teacher told her to go do an essay.
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.
The paparazzi have got worse for everyone over the years. It has just become such a big deal. No-one in this business really has much privacy.
The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.
Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.
I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.
I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.
I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings.
The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.
Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.
Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.
When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.
I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.
I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.
