30 Years Quotes

For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

As much as I have done collaborations over the years, I am actually kind of a reluctant partner.

A lot happens in 20 years.

If you go all the way back to the days just following creation, men lived nine hundred years or more.

You'd have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to think that this earth that we live in only has 6000 years of existence. It just doesn't.

When you think about Walt [Disney]'s life, I don't know of anybody on Earth over the last hundred years who has touched as many people as he did. He's touched every nation on Earth.

You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.

A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.

The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.

Many times in my life I've been upset about something and said to myself, "Will this matter in two years?" Not even in two months.

I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him out.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.

I spent my first two years as a professional with Mapei in Italy, on their youth team. We rode in minor races. Doping wasn't an issue. S

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

One day I was 17 years old and I ended up trying to commit suicide and I ended up in the hospital. As a teenager, that was a really scary thing.

I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.

Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year, the Beatles.

After something crystallizes, I can write ferociously and write novels in six months, which in the past would have taken me two years.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost.

I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

I'm a very, very proud Canadian, and having the privilege to represent my country on the international level was the highlight of my 18-year career.

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.