30 Years Quotes

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

I loved Jared Leto. My So-Called Life, that was my jam. And Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet. Every 14-year-old girl was obsessed with that.

There was never a recorded Iraqi terrorists in the last 20 years in any terrorist attack. There were no terrorists in Iraq until we invaded it.

I'm so excited by women right now, not just in America but globally. Women really are coming into their own. We're standing on the shoulders of forty years of hard and messy work.

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific.

I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have gone on - I burn out every once in a while.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

I have more fun now doing a game on a Saturday or Sunday than I've ever had. I love the fact that every year, it's gotten more and more fun.

A few more albums, a few more years, I'll be like Peter Petrelli in Heroes. I'll be some type of rap super-monster or something.

I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.

I've been eight years with this beautiful little thing and I've got a partner for him now. After eight years of trying to unify the titles, it's going to be pretty hard to give this up.

Over the years, Ive worked with just about everybody.

Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.

I had a bowl cut for years, and glasses. When Harry Potter became famous, I looked just like him.

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.

I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

If humanity can exist for another million years, everybody's going to be a light shade of yellow-brown-red-tan.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

I've actually been doing stand up for more than 20 years. I started in 1988. It's almost 30 years! Which is crazy.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.

I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old, and I've been here ever since. I still think Chicago is the best city in the country.

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

It's pretty difficult to promote something the week after Christmas and the week before New Year's.

I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.

My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.