80s Quotes - Page 12

• I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

  Ernest Cline

  Stars, War, Unique

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• It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

  Renny Harlin

  Impossible, Film, Finland

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

  Ernest Cline

  Our Generation, Generations, Nostalgia

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• People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Attachment, People

  "Sherry Turkle: 'We're losing the raw, human part of being with each other'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2013.

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• Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated into today's population of about 25 million new jobs in a seven-year period. As Speaker of the House, I worked with President Clinton and he followed with a very similar plan. And we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Recovery, Thinking

  "Full Transcript: ABC News Iowa Republican Debate". abcnews.go.com. December 11, 2011.

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• ...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Nice, Telephones, Buttons

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• I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• There is something very pleasurable about watching cartoons, a really warm, comfortable feeling. My taste is quite broad, but most of all I like American cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I'll watch Pokemon or bad 80s cartoons.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Feelings, Cartoon, Pokemon

  Source: www.newrafael.com

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• I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.

  John McEnroe

  Thinking, Should Have, People

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• I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  Frank Stella

  Wall, Artist, Abstract Painting

  "With Frank Stella, what you see is what you see. But when the modern master speaks, what you hear may raise your eyebrows."by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2004.

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• I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.

  Michael Mullen

  Relationship, Keys, Broken

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• Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

  Kim Wilde

  Careers, Way, Built

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• I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Influence, Grew Up

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• Okay, I'll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us '80s hair.

  Julianne Hough

  Hair, Giving, Causes

  "Talking About Hair-Metal with Julianne Hough". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Jobs, 80s And 90s

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• There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz

  Lonely, Dark, Thinking

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz (2011). “Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.

  David Oliver Relin

  People, Age, Folks

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• The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, Successful, Thinking

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• Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

  John Mellencamp

  Music, Country, Men

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• Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies of the '80s. I don't remember the last time a debut book hit me this hard. Literally, this book punched me in the face. It's THAT mean.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Mean, Perfect

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• In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

  Nick Harkaway

  Ends, Courses

  Nick Harkaway (2014). “Tigerman: A novel”, p.164, Vintage

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• Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start to mimic it on some level. That's why you go back to the guys you loved in the 80s... and it just seems tired now, because it was all foundation.

  Doug Stanhope

  Music, Tired, People

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• Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.

  John Sebastian

  Hair, Police, Wish

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• My character on 'I'm In the Band,' Derek Jupiter of Iron Weasel, is definitely one of the crazier ones. That's completely on the other end of the spectrum. There's absolutely nothing like Derek any shape or form. I'm having so much fun playing this egotistical, '80s-era rockstar - everything he does is from the point-of-view of a rockstar.

  Steve Valentine

  Fun, Character, Views

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• My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.

  Steve Valentine

  Struggle, Rocks, Band

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