30 Years Quotes

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

In the coming year, I believe we can make sure America lives up to its legacy as a land of opportunity if the President is willing to back up his rhetoric with substance.

Everybody thought of me as Arnold Horshack. I resented Horshack for so many years.

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

The ice caps are melting now. They're not going to refreeze next year just because we reduce our emissions. We're going to live in that world. So plan for it.

I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

A drastic reduction in the deficit...will take place in the fiscal year '82.

Wherever there are rock n rollers, well play. Thats what weve been doing for more than 30 years - rock n roll. Its made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

My hearts not been in it this year [2005], and I've not been playing well, but I keep on winning.

I love the fact that 35 years later, I still hear my songs on the radio.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

The fact that I still want the best for the world is kind of amazing. People slandered me for years and years and years. I would say to them, "Thanks for having a closed mind".

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

The American people are sick and tired of this ‘lesser evil’ garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they’re in office...

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in two hundred years, and if America doesn't stand up, we're in big trouble.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

Elvis makes millions every year, although he's been dead for many years.

The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

I've been in the same place for 10 years and having to say goodbye and clean out the locker is the toughest part.

I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

It is said in sporting circles that great players leave the game a year too early rather than a year too late.

No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.