30 Years Quotes

I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

TIME's Person of the Year for 2006, maintainer of a foot long beard

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

There are so many shoot-'em-up, action, jingoistic TV shows and movies that are made every year. I think the final line is that Hollywood is populist.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows; but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.

It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

We want to have good ties with the Iranians, but if they want good ties with us, then I tell them: Don't keep attacking us as you have done for the last years.

I want to leave an album behind that is classic, that people in 50 years will refer to and pass on to their children. An album that you never bored of.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.

Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

Anything you ever make that matters takes a long time. Some artists never see their work in front of an audience, so for them 15 years is a blink of an eye. I am nothing but grateful.

Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

My sister is 4 years older than me and I've always looked up to her, she was the girl I always wanted to be.

All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.

It's frightening how much things change in seventy-one years.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

We've had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system? Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.

Why did the regime put me in prison in the first place? I was put in prison for six years and it has been all illegal.

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.