30 Years Quotes

Nicholas Anelka - 24 years of age but he's been around a lot longer than that

I get paid to play football, not to sit on the bench, I don't enjoy that. Over the years loads of players have been very happy to do that and pick up their money. That used to really wind me up.

I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.

I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

I have been involved with the UN refugee agency for a few years now, and we have done events to speak about refugees, focusing more and more on the situation with Afghan refugees.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace.

I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.

A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.

Kanye [West] just says the funniest analogies that are so random. I should start keeping a book - in 20 years, I'll have a big book of analogies.They always make me laugh.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

You listen to the intelligence community, they say, listen, maybe it's ISIS today, it's somebody else tomorrow. We'll deal with the caliphate, but it's going to take years to be able to handle this.

I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species.

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences.

Anyone who thinks Christmas doesn't last all year just doesn't have a Mastercard.

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

I dress like a 7-year-old space pilot. I have clothes that I still wear regularly from high school.

I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good.

I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.

You may have noticed over the years that the UN became a bit more media-friendly, a bit more open to the media than in the past.

I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a show there that was going to be filming here. Ended up coming out, getting the job and just staying.

The funny thing is that I'm not a planner. I have no idea what I want to do in the interim of that 50 years, but I tell ya: That's where you'll find me in my last performance.

I know for me, specifically, L.A. is just an overwhelming and scary place. I like spending part of my year there, but I love having Canada as my home to come back to.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

I don’t think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, ‘I’d like to star in the play.’

What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

A lot of people have wondered what Ive been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!

The annual output of carbon emissions is 25 billion tonnes and Global Cool's goal is to reduce it by one billion tonnes a year.