80s Quotes - Page 18

• By the latter part of high school, by the middle of junior year in high school, Jay Rodriguez played me some Irakere records that that Paquito [D'Rivera] was on. And he also played me and our friend, Curtis Haywood, some Phil Woods records. And when I heard Phil, I just about lost my mind. I was playing the Charlie Parker Omnibook as part of my lessons. This was the '80s. There was no YouTube and all that. And we had three or four jazz records at that point.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Years, Mind

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• During the '80s, those you would call the young philosophers of France, such as Bernard-Henri Lévy and [André ] Gluxman, pointed out that Camus had said things no one wanted to hear in the political arena. They said it was [Albert] Camus who was right, not those who had slid under the influence of Sartre, that is to say an unconditional devotion to Communism as seen in the Soviet Union. And ever since then the evaluation of Camus has continued to modify up until today

  Catherine Camus

  Political, Unions, Today

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Requirements, Revolution

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• We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

  Alan Shepard

  Past, Agency, Rise Above

  "The Flight of Memory - Mercury Reunion Honors Glenn's Voyage" by Elizabeth Kastor, The Washington Post, p. G1, February 21, 1987.

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• In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

  Al Yankovic

  Mtv, Games, Rotation

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization.

  Henry Rollins

  Civilization, Black, Twenties

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

  Robert Plant

  Hate, Rocks, Singers

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• In early days, I showed everything I made. There was no such thing as editing a collection. In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

  Michael Kors

  Editing, Order, Looks

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• In the '80s, I thought I'd be a success as a woman if I were the president of a billion dollar company, had a sensitive soul-mate husband, two bilingual children, buns of steels, and a compost heap. In the '90s, I pretty much feel I'm a success if I can get through the afternoon without eating a cheesecake.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Children, Husband, Two

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• I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Growing Up, Detroit, Rough

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• I guess the cool thing about the '80s is the kind of like adventure in terms of, you know, people were very willing to use sounds that were completely ridiculous or whatever. There was a lot of stuff happening in the '80s and it's all over the place. I guess that's probably the coolest thing for me and that's what I like about it. Just kind of that like, 'Oh, what's this sound? Oh that's wacky. Let's use it anyways.'

  Emma Stone

  Adventure, People, Stuff

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• I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sweet, Horror, Film

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• I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone - they fuelled my childhood. But now I don't think I'd like to do just action, I don't enjoy that.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Childhood

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

  Anne Lamott

  Reading, Mind, Great Work

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I don't like to put tags on my music. I leave that to others. Seems like some people see me as the founder of "space disco", although that's a bit weird since there were lots of music from the late 70s and early 80s that easily fits into this genre. I can understand why we need genres, but I don't feel comfortable using any on my own music.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Space, People, Needs

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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• My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

  Lewis Black

  Father, Really Cool, Wells

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.

  Jack Wagner

  Dream, Careers, Energy

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

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• There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.

  Jessica Pare

  Stars, Real, Character

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

  Jayma Mays

  Jobs, Nice, College

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

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• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Bill Mumy

  Media, Age, Golden

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• [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

  Martin Short

  Retirement, Character, Home

  "Hot Seat". Time Out New York, Issue 565, August 02, 2006.

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• I have very fond memories of the 80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.

  Matthew Rhys

  Memories, Real, War

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• Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Mean, Independent, Writing

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I was the original voice of Mattels Barbie for an 80s claymation workout video.

  Jodi Benson

  Workout, Voice, Barbie

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• I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

  Keira Knightley

  Sex, Fighting, Opportunity

  "Keira Knightley: ‘Where Are The Female Stories?’" By Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2015.

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