80s Quotes - Page 15

• I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

  Jordana Brewster

  Fashion, School, White

  "Jordana Brewster Talks Swimsuits, Reveals Leatherface's Human Side". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2006.

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• When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.

  John Barrowman

  Friday, Growing Up, Kids

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• I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mother, Father, Bird

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• I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.

  George Carlin

  Florida, Age, Temperature

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• When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Glowing, World

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• You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

  Ann Wilson

  Night, Two, Long

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• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  Alex Chilton

  Country, Player, Years

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• I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, New York, Cities

  "Michael Rapaport’s Vision Quest". Interview with Steven Prigge, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 24, 2011.

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• 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.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Kids, Actors, Thirty

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• I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

  Chyler Leigh

  Back In The Day, Great Experiences, Really Great

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  Kevin McKidd

  Football, Kids, Miami Dolphins

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• I was heavily into AD&D in my teens (late 1970s-early 1980s) but fell off the RPG habit in the mid-80s and have never gone back to it; my lifestyle today isn't very compatible with having a regular gaming group (too much travel).

  Charles Stross

  Rpgs, Groups, Gone

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 02, 2012.

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• My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

  Juice Newton

  Pops

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• It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Stars, Feet, Saws

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• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  Camilla Lackberg

  80s And 90s, Pops, Pop Music

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

  Roger Mudd

  Sea, Judgement, Television

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, Class, Office

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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• I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Kids, Cutting

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• Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Television, Food Network

  "Q&A: Wolfgang Puck, Now of Top Chef". Interview with Eric Vilas-Boas, www.esquire.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.

  Lionel Richie

  Country, Kings, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

  Nik Kershaw

  Night, Band, Drink

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

  John Maeda

  Art, Ethos, Design

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