30 Years Quotes

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

I made 22 million in 14 years... with taxes, and travel and everything else, it gets blown out the window... which is why I still need to work.

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.

I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching them with her friends.

There's been a lot of stage combat over the years, and I've loved it. Started in college with William Shakespeare. I've always liked the active things.

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

Now, I've gotten to the point in my career, I'm 13 years in, to where I know that I'm funny. I know that I'm good at this.

When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

The beauty industry is always led by innovation. When you think about over the past three or four years, some of the best innovation in our industry has come from Korea.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.

If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

I was three years old. I was messing with my grandparents' dog in Las Vegas, and he decided to pick me up by my head and run around the backyard with me.

I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

I do yoga, like, 20 minutes a day, but the routine that I practice I initially watched on YouTube, like, two years ago. I'm still doing that same thing. YouTube University, man. It's the best.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of 'what else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

I was 45 years old when I decided to learn how to surf.

I’ve spent something like 17 years working on a theory for which there is essentially no direct experimental support.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

Brubaker and Phillipss books have always been about eight years ahead of their time.

We're always looking roughly 30 years behind us. In the '80s they were obsessed with the '50s and so on.

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

I hate the pigeonholing that's happened in the music business in the last 30 years.

I've always been serious about music. After you've done it for so many years, you get back to the basics.

I wanted to put jazz on the record, all the loves of music that I had on the record, so I could show people I was ahead of my 19 years. It may have been over the heads of some people.

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.