Years Quotes
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I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
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Lots of bands spend years and years before they hit it. For us it was overnight. It was two years - three at the most - from when the band started playing; and it wasn't like we worked so hard. It was a fun thing to do.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
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Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
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My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.
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After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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Some people think Wheeler's gotten crazy in his later years, but he's always been crazy.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective.
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Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
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He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.
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I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
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My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not know much about writing, I just knew that I liked to write my name everywhere I could in my neighborhood.
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I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
