30 Years Quotes

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.

Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn learning itself - by years.

I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.

You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years.

I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

Obamas IRS is not the IRS Ive ever known for over seventy years as an American citizen.

I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.

I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

Here's what happens - you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then... people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment.

I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

When I was 16 years old I led the team in scoring. I would attack, attack, attack and that is something I think you are just born with, I really do.

Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing.

We're being attacked, Britain is being attacked, our allies are being attacked because we've installed and backed and implemented a set of policies in the Middle East for the last years or more.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

Maybe in 10 years,I'll only be doing "classical" comedy. Or crashing my car into trees.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.

I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

I've been waiting years to have a conversation with Franchesa [Ramsey]! She's so funny and wicked smart. So that's really going to be the experience it's going to intelligent, layered, and hilarious.

SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

When you put more than a million kids in school, you take a plane today and go to Haiti, you cannot see the results. You will see the results in 30 years when you see a different type of Haitian.

There's been a lot of study of the demographics this year that could decide this election [2016] and a lot of money being spent targeting voters who could tip the vote.

Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.

If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

Another reason for switching to color is world television. In a few years, it will all be in color, and you can't compete against that with black-and-white films.