30 Years Quotes

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

I am firmly of the opinion that a large number of unmarried men, over the age of 24 years, is a dangerous element in any community.

After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.

I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

51 years ago, when Hillary Clinton was working on the Goldwater campaign, Bernie Sanders was getting locked up for my rights. 50 years later he's talking about doing something and not talking.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

I've studied golf for almost 50 years now and know a hell of a lot about nothing.

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.

A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.'

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

The Wall will stand for a hundred years.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.