30 Years Quotes

America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.

In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself.

As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

It's Sir Ben. I've not been a Mister for two years.

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.

I was a street performer for two years.

To me, animal communication seemed an insane idea, years ago; but my experience altered my life and my beliefs.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

I'd been arrested many times by then. I'd been an organizer, so many things had changed over those three years [from 1965 till 1968].

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

My mom was a psychic. And there's a movie called The Gift that I'd written years ago with Cate Blanchett which is loosely based on my mom.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.

I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.

So whenever I had some in-between producing time down in my studio I popped a tape in and started working on it. Working a little bit at a time, it actually took almost four years.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

I have failed at unscripted television for five years now, so I am hopeful I can break that trend and get a good unscripted show on the air.

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.