30 Years Quotes

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Comedy is commitment and playing a character and falling into the role, and I've been doing that since I was 19 years old.

I'm never going to say the word "retire." If I feel like having a match when I'm 70 years old and I think I can go out there and tear it up, then I'm going to do it.

In other parts of the world where I go, people are worried about, Jeez, you know, I really wanted to buy my kids shoes this year.

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.

I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

I've been married for 10 years and, you know, it's hard, you spruce it up and you go places. How do you spruce up anything? Artificially. You go places and do things.

It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.

I think it's so incredibly special to be able to try to recapitulate that feeling I had when I was sitting in that theater, as a 7-year-old. It's an extraordinary job. I'm incredibly lucky.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

I think the years leading up to 21 were a bit more fun than 21 and beyond might be.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.

I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.

Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

Ellen Langer’s work has been an inspiration to me for years. Counterclockwise, her latest book, will change the way you think about your health – for the better. It’s simply fabulous.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

Why one day in the country Is worth a month in town; Is worth a day and a year Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion That days drone elsewhere.

The Pleiadians are saying it is going to happen in a mass setting. Within probably the next year and a half, many people are just going to have an instant awakening, a remembering.

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

I had been going out to Orient for several years.

I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

People have wanted to look inside the human mind, the human brain, for thousands of years.

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.