30 Years Quotes

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.

The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done.

I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

I don't race a lot, half a dozen (races) a year maybe.

I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is, I'll always want to do things that are worthwhile or fun.

10 years ago, I would've host Saturday Night Live. But to me, the show has declined. For some reason, humor isn't what it was. It just, to me, it's not as funny as it was, not as sharply satirical.

From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.

I've known John Landgraf for 20 years. He said it perfectly. People will ask if I've seen X. My response has often been, 'Seen it? I've never heard of it.'

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide?

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

Anything that sparks some eight-year-old's interest in music or DJing is great.

There's any number of DJs who have inspired me over the years. I don't actively go out in clubs, so I can't tell you if there's some hot new talent out there who everybody's aware of but I'm not.

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

When you hear kids singing your songs it just validates them, they sound like real songs when you hear them back, it's quite refreshing. Like songs that could have been around for a hundred years.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

Life can be considered as a huge wardrobe, with so many dominos hung in its cupboards, one domino per year. Now I don't see why I couldn't change my mask in this wardrobe even twice a day.

As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.

I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

I can honestly say that retiring will put years on his career.

The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already written my best book.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

You go through the Sporting News for the last one hundred years, and you will find two things are always true. You never have enough pitching, and nobody ever made money.