Years Quotes

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course is only four years! I absolutely trained.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.

I made a living being a background singer for years.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

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.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.