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If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. — Gloria Swanson

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation. — Vita Sackville-West

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history. — Rick Yune

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play. — Gary Player

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it. — Dhaval Gajera

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it. — Randee Heller

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. — Graham Hancock

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old. — Wes Borland

Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you. — Keeley Hawes

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. — Frank McCourt

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. — George Lucas

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40. — Nicolas Cage

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years ... It hasn't always been roses.' — Jason Aldean

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency. — Randy Newman

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out. — Steven Tyler

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that. — James Levine

I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. — Hillary Clinton

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40. — Pete Maravich

I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago. — Baba Kalyani

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel. — William Nicholson

Throughout the 40 years I've been in Washington, I've always worked hard, particularly with regards to the budget issues. — Leon Panetta

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive. — Eric Burdon

I probably hit the ball as far today as I did 40 years ago. That just shouldn't be. — Gene Littler

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years. — Michael Ben-Ari

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion). — Phil Ehart

At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment. — Benjamin Franklin

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society. — Ma Ying-jeou

Thanks to my effort in the last 40 years, there has been more paper and film wasted. — Man Ray

I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those. — James Patterson

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. — Steve Lacy

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. — Alistair Cooke

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years. — Alan Jackson

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. — Ron Perlman

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! — Vitali Klitschko

I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. — Drew Gilpin Faust

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. — Jason Hirschhorn

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years. — Patrick Troughton

I always thought to myself, 'I don't want to be doing stand-up when I'm 40 years old.' — Chelsea Handler

I'm not a fan of fillers at all. If you've gone 35 or 40 years without big lips, I don't think it's time to start plumping them up artificially. — Cindy Crawford

I think he'll reach 1000 goals, but he'll never overtake my total.
(on 40-year old Romario) — Pele

40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that. — Misty Copeland

I believe you [Donald Trump] know politicians better than I do because for 40 years you've been funding liberal Democratic politicians. — Ted Cruz

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college. — R.L. Stine

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about. — Mary, Crown Princess Of Denmark

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!" — Mike Royer

I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years. — Angela Lansbury

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something. — Davy Rothbart

I'm still getting thrilled with music even after 40 years of doing it professionally. — Jeff Lynne

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds. — Rand Paul

I would have to say I've been on the 'Opry' at least 30-35-40 times a year for ... 51-52 years. — Jim Ed Brown

College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of twenty or thirty years ago," Konrath reports. — Kevin Dutton

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years. — Stephen J. Cannell

I can always remember the dances, even from shows I did 40 years ago. — Gwen Verdon

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago. — Kara Swisher

On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it. — Johnnie Cochran

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago. — Ken Olsen

After 40, you want to reverse the ageing process. That's complicated for me because I spent so many years wanting to be older. — Sam Rockwell

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years. — Joe Bradley

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. — Winston Churchill

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure. — Coco Austin

I did my 40 years in Washington, 40-plus, and it's time to pause and reflect and think about what I've seen and done. — Dick Cheney

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40. — James Thurber

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it. — Mary Chase

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong. — Giuliana Rancic

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years. — Eileen Myles

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year. — John Garamendi

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil. — Gabriel Ba

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam. — Toby Young

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. — Lorna Luft

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple. — Scott Cook

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time. — Benoit Mandelbrot

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament — Roy Hattersley

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear. — Debby Ryan

Being able to act for a living is a blessing. I have a great theater company that's almost 40 years old. — Gary Sinise

I don't drink water, haven't drank water in 40 years. — Lou Holtz

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. — Dave Grohl

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical. — Hedy Lamarr

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated. — Edward James Olmos

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long. — David Bowie

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. — Joshua Lederberg

We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years. — Brendan Iribe

Keep on complaining about slavery and that was over 40 to 50 years ago. You know, black folks need to move on. — Ludacris

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices. — Isaac Hayes

My dad worked for 40 years in an aluminum plant. I don't think he ever got aluminum block. — Jess Walter

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald

The best laid plans take 40 years to complete. — Robert Burns

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years. — Urs Fischer

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is! — Norman Wisdom

One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this. — Jeremy Rifkin

The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion. — Barack Obama

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture ... — Paul Cezanne

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate. — Mary Cheney

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year! — Eartha Kitt

I am a fan of Hrithik and I feel he will
be a star for 30-40 years. He is really great. — Anil Kapoor

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off. — John Stossel