30 Years Quotes

If you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29 percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies have led to groceries going up 29 percent.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old, I am dangerous.

Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.

I had dreamed of being at the Olympics since I was 7 years old.

I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.

Over the years I've become more confident in people's ability to recognize a good thing.

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?"

I mean, hope doesn't get actualized in three and a half years. If that were the case, we'd be out of luck as a country.

Actually, I think that turning 29 was more difficult, because once I turned 29, I anticipated 30 for the whole year, so by the time 30 came around it really wasn't that bad.

I used to do drugs in high school. I've been living in L.A. for almost 10 years, and shortly after I arrived I cleaned up pretty much. Stuff goes on on the set, stuff goes on at parties.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old

One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that had just died. His name was Albert Einstein.

We have recorded songs on the same day that were released years later in other albums.

I've had Range Rovers for a few years actually.

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

I'm set to have my best year ever: I'm hiring some acts and there will be a show in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. I'm going to use my theater to its fullest potential.

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for years.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty.

Playing 10 years in the NHL, almost 600 games, there's going to be some wear and tear for everybody.

I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

Social networking sites like Myspace, Friendster, and Facebook have literally exploded in popularity in just a few short years.

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

[My mom] is someone who just has boundless energy. I think she's about 84 years young right now.

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

I've always been an Industrial fan. People who say "Industrial is out" are the same people who will say "IDM is out" in a year or two. Ambulance chasers.

I think the team will think this was an O.K. year. Some guys had career years, but the reality is that we didn't get it done at the end of the day.

This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel.

I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of Steve Carrell and Tina Fey for years.