Years Quotes
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I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.
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I am the misunderstood person, I have been misunderstood for the past several years.
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For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
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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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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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For the last 30-plus years, I have been doing one long, uninterrupted improv.
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If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day.
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
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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.
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I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
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We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.
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I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?
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After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.
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This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in 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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Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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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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If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.
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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.
