30 Years Quotes

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

When I was just five years old, I loved the scary layer and the symbolical power of the red cloak. I made my mom make me that red cloak, and I had to wear it on Halloween, two years in a row.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

If we put a product into Sears, we don't want to have to pull it out in a year, or two years, or three years. We don't want to do that only to have it yanked away.

General Motors has no bad years, only good years and better years.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always been extraordinary. It never stops moving.

Fiction that responds to recent world events is a hostage to fortune because all momentous events look very different a year, two years, three years later.

It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

I was married in my 30s, in a long relationship for about seven years, got divorced, and then I had a string of flings, and then was single for two years.

They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest governor should get four years, and the others life.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants

I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.

I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That's the way studios do it now.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now.

We've got to look toward two years from now [January 2017] to at least provide some balance in congress.

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

I feel like myself and the city of Cleveland are in the same boat. We're made for each other. A few years ago, everybody had bad thoughts on Albert Belle. I feel that has changed.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

Even when Warren [Beatty] cast me, it had been two years between films at that point.

I auditioned for four or five years and didn't get anything after that.

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know best don't know what I'm writing about.

Certainly children are being encouraged far more than they were seventy-five years ago and are more accepted as they are.

For two years I watched my parents' lives wind to a close. This made me aware of old age as a one stage, the final one, of a long journey.

Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [...] It's called being grown-up.

Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.