30 Years Quotes

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there

At the end of the day, it's all about what's on the shelf at the end of the year.

My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

The problem is I'm older now, I'm 40 years old, and this stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't.

I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'

If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

I tell my students, if you are going to spend days and months and years with someone, you had better like that person!

The only time I've really been away from my kids to do work was doing Shall We Dance because they both were in camp and it was the first time in twenty years that I haven't been with my kids.

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.

I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.

One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

I think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.

You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

I still play but for some reason, I am having so much fun playing guitar and singing that I don't really miss it because I've done it for so long like twenty-something years with Motley.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

I remember; I was 15 years old when Neil Armstrong put feet in the moon.

It takes years to build up trust, and just seconds to destroy it.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

Some songs can wait for years, and then - boom! and explode like a bomb.

I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.

My mom said, "What I want is a happy kid, not a rich kid. That's what I root for." She saw how much joy I got from playing music, and those years were leaner than lean!

The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.