30 Years Quotes

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

New Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.

Donald Trump and his team have not provided any evidence of widespread fraud in this year's election.

I was in advertising for years. That was cushy, you know? It's pretty cushy in a lot of ways, but I hated it.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

Remember how last year there were two more girls than guys and I had to be on the guys' side and dance with all the girls? That was a lot of fun. I love being tall.

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and go to jail for a long time.

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

There is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.

We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?

She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime.

The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.

I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.

I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.

99.9% of plumbers make less than a quarter million dollars a year, and I'm going to give Joe a break whether he wants it or not.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year.

I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year.

With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement.

We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.