30 Years Quotes

I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.

When you see me do a five-minute thing, there's been about two years of preparation behind that. You know, I find that's what it takes to really make it the level of quality I prefer.

In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

I've sort of remarried a few years ago and have had a couple more children in the last couple of years. And so home life is taking up a lot of my time.

President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

With 'Suite Life,' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Sometimes I feel like I'm being watched, but then I remember that my show was canceled three years ago.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.

Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.

My favorite memory is my five years with the Nuggets. From my first day to my last day is a great memory. There wasn't a year that I was a Nugget that I didn't think we succeeded.

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

When the new country came out ten to 15 years ago, people my age were almost too old. But it never stopped me. I never stopped writing. I never stopped recording.

Years ago when I first started being a big star I had fans that were fanatical. It was when "Jolene" was a big hit.

I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

I was an all-around player - if I was just a scorer, there's no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.But so am I working harder, that I can tell you.

Give me your vote, Hillary Clinton says, on November eighth. And then she'll say, so long, see you in four years. That's what it is.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

I think I'll do well in Michigan. I've been talking about cars for five years.

America cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary Clinton.

ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment. And I will tell you, I will take care of ISIS.

Hillary Clinton wants their vote, and she does nothing, and then she comes back four years later.

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.