30 Years Quotes

Isn't this amazing? Clinton is getting $8M for his memoir, Hillary got $8M for her memoir. That is $16M for two people who for eight years couldn't remember anything.

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

The new specialty at the Iowa fair this year is fried butter on a stick. Of course, if you're like me and you want like to eat healthy, get your stick of butter baked.

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

Republicans are always criticizing President Obama for using the teleprompter. Is that a big deal? After eight years of George Bush, I'm glad we have a president that can read.

The heaviest snowfall in over 60 years is being reported in Beijing, China. To give you an idea of how bad it is, the army is now using snowplows to run over dissidents.

We ought to thank President Bush. He made it a lot easier for people to do taxes this year. No job, no income tax this year.

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

Actually, Joe Biden looked pretty good. In fact, Joe's popularity has gone from 1% to 2% last week to 3% today. At this rate, he could win the nomination by the year 2032.

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

There's not a rocket scientist, not a doctor, not an accountant that 30 years in goes, "Oh, now I'm getting it. Now I can't wait to get back out there because I'm better than ever."

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity.

Ive been making my living with this material for over 15 years.

When the year turns, there are bells on the wind. All the old years fall on the ground in lights.

You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.

No company can promise an end date, but if you have multiple debts, the first one should be settled within a year.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.

I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.

What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.

I am in favor of the European institutions being led for the next two-and-a-half years as they have been thus far. We need stability.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

Movies in Hollywood now, for the past 20 or 30 years, are made mainly by lawyers or agents.

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

I forced myself to go visit Asia four times a year.

What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.

If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.

I feel like in one year it's very easy to go from Internet poster boy to Internet piсata.

Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

The roadwork is just rehearsal for that DVD you're going to film a year later.

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.

All these years I've sat in airports and kind of drawn people and put like Far Side captions on them.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

[Mitt] Romney didn't get beyond the numbers. He couldn't get 50 percent. Romney didn't - Romney got killed by the under-$50,000-a-year income voter. He just got killed in that.

[Ronald Reagan] appealed to that group of [working American] people and we can do it again, because they've had, now, eight years of [Barak] Obama. Things have not gone well.

Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.