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Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod. 'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.
This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.
In over thirty years working in TV and movies, I've never had an exit interview or contributed to a 360 assessment.
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Thirty is still the iconic number. It's when people compare their actual lives with what they think they should have achieved.
Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.
And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.
Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.
For thirty years, Jesus never allowed his divinity to manifest itself. He was infinitely superior to everyone but never showed it.
My longtime friend Steven Steinbock, who has worked with me for more than thirty years, is a master at panfrying fish and seafood.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
Unfortunately, at present, practically no one under thirty goes to workshops. It's a system of education entirely for the middle aged.
I loved Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty;' my favorite films are 'The Godfather,' 'Kill Bill: Volume 2'... I dig Tarantino's works.
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.
I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
To be very objective, I am here in this field for thirty five years, and I always knew that Shahid has an incredible capability as an actor.
I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.
Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.
For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
'Zero Dark Thirty' raised the stakes. It raised the stakes in cinema, man. I don't think people really know how to grasp what type of film this is.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.