30 Years Quotes

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

It's too late. Seventeen-year-olds don't need fathers. Oh god. I'm thirty-four years old and I need a father. I can't even begin to think what my daughter needs.

When he wins the bet, I tell Griggs that it will take me a lifetime to save up two trillion dollars and he tells me that he's only giving me seventy years.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

I have been known for almost 30 years to sort of do whatever comes my way. It's always been touch-and-go after each job finishes. I just like to be working.

For this mortal I would disobey my queen, abandon my king, the court that has protected me all these years. All of it.

I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel like I'm ancient, like two thousand years old.

If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.

Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

For years now, the Lakers have expressed interest in having me play for them, but we could never get the stars to align. I'm finally a Laker...

When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry.

I went to acting school for like a year and ended up doing voiceovers and stuff. I could have done a lot more with it but at the time I really wasn't taking it seriously.

The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough... No, I do not support the Dream Act.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.

I ate her cooking for eighteen years," he whispered. "You get used to it." "Oh yeah, when?" "I think it happened around the seventeenth year," Henry said.

I didn't do it,' he insisted. 'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked. 'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years.

The old guys like me started in the theatre. I was in the theatre for nine years.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.

I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

I've been wanting to do a play for years.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

I actually became a Christian in my rookie year on tour when I was 16 years old.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years.

I'd love to star in a television series of my own. I love the idea of living with a character for a number of years, watching him grow.