30 Years Quotes

The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.

It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I probably write a poem every 50 years.

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.

The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene - and it is over for 20 years.

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel,' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

I'm not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It's constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly adds to the challenge.

[Clowns] gotten a really bad rap in the last few years. People have really given into their own fears and have celebrated their fears in that way. American Horror Story didn't help.

Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.

Starting to drink now in preparation for New Years. No more last minute stuff like Christmas.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

I feel I'm in 2006 form to be honest. I hear a lot of comparisons to 2004, but I never changed. Last year was a struggle but I've worked hard. . . I'm not going back, I'm going forward.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.