30 Years Quotes

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

Good startups usually take 10 years.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

My kid is a year and a half old, and I just want to roll around on the floor with him for a little bit and have a normal relationship with my family.

Anytime you test for a TV show, you have that bit of squeamishness entering into it because they lock you in for a number years.

I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.

I grew up singing professionally since I was 7 years old and so to get to play a character who's living out their Rock star dreams as JEM was pretty much epic.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.

I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

Maybe I'd be in a different place in my career if I'd had that 10-year plan, a lot of people went at it with this voracity that I never had. My only voracity was to have fun and to be in the mix.

I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.

When I was writing Caramelo the last couple of years, a sixty-hour work week was normal. And now I'm lucky if I have eight hours.

There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.

Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?

My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too, The world's heart breaks beneath its wars,All things are changed, save in the east,The faithful beauty of the stars.