30 Years Quotes

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.”

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

From a personal point of view, I'd like to interview my great-grandparents because I barely knew them, and I know next to nothing about my family beyond 100 years.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

Do not always say no. If satisfied with the seat in place and not reckless, the next 20 years you will still sit there alone

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.

Sometimes when I watch a TV season, your favorite shows die quickly. And then sometimes it's not your favorite, and they live on for 12 years.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

I graduated from Brown in 2001, moved to New York, and spent a year and a half just looking up Backstage magazine auditions and grinding.

The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

Working on 'Dexter' is like shooting one big movie every year.

There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three.

Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that.

Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before the mast. Will ye serve?

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

I can't believe it. Maybe there is a God after all. Herbal supplement sales only grew 1 percent last year. The years before, it was 17 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent.

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'

We will certainly be focused on making sure that the prosperity we have been able to accomplish in the past 8 years under the leadership of Mr. [Barack] Obama, continues.

I think Donald Trump has done everything he can to take us back to policies like we had during the McCarthy years.

Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, Cronkite is a classic. Douglas Brinkley has written his best book yet. This is a fascinating story that will be read for years to come.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano.

Our first-year list is Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (translated by Arunava Sinha), Hwang Jung-eun (translated by Jung Yewon), and Khairani Barokka.

And because I have a four-year-old son I have become a great baseball pitcher. And, you know, juggler.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

I cheated at school. I remember on one occasion I wrote some history dates in pen on my leg. So when there was a question like 'What year did that happen?', I'd lift my skirt up and have a look.