30 Years Quotes
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic
We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated
Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.
In recent years, research into the prevention and treatment of arthritis has led to measures that successfully reduce pain and improve the quality of life for millions.
For years I have read the morning paper and harrumphed. There's a lot to harrumph about now.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.
When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.
The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.
Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.
I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.
There's never been A day in the last four years I've been proud to be his Vice President. Not a single day.
Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.
I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.
The name Bowie just appealed to me when I was younger. I was into a kind of heavy philosophy thing when I was 16 years old, and I wanted a truism about cutting through the lies and all that.
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.
It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.
I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
It was decided almost two hundred years ago that English should be the language spoken in the United States. It is not known, however, why this decision has not been carried out.
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself.
MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain
A lot of people say you always come back to what you are good at. Football has been 25 years of my life, so maybe I'll come back to it in some sort of way.
For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!
The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock'n'roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock'n'roll.
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
