30 Years Quotes

Boston is not an avant garde place. It stays literally 15 to 20 years behind New York at all times.

I've been really fortunate to have Bridge Records interested in publishing my music for the past 25 years. Most of my music is available in their catalog.

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.

I've spent hundreds of days on commercial sets in the last ten years. If I didn't learn something along the way, I wasn't paying very close attention.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

There's endless possibilities to taking music into the future by using music that actually was 100 years old.

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England last year.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years.

The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

You can go back and rescind an old regulation like Obama era regulations. That was done once in 20 years. We've done 14 of them in law this year alone, because they can't filibuster that.

I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really bother me.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

I developed friends in the community that were in walking distance or a bicycle ride away, so that I socialized and did a lot of things that children do in their early years.

I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

3D really altered the way I shot the movie completely, and it was exciting because, after 20 years of filmmaking, I felt like I was making my first movie, all over again.

I had this movie, Death Race, that was a passion project for me that I'd had in development for almost ten years.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

I can go on and on. In the Appalachians. I fed the poorest part of this nation for years coming up at Christmas.

I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. I had never attended church, was never raised in a religious home, never had any insight of God or who he was until I was 18 years old.

It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.

I wish I could spend six years writing one novel.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

The Democratic Party is that amazing thing, out of power for six years and yet exhausted. They're pale, tired, and unready. Too bad, since it's their job to be an alternative, not an embarrassment.

The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. It alarmed me.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total. (on 40-year old Romario)