80s Quotes - Page 20

• When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, Rocks, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

  Jess Row

  Rap, Ice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

  Moshe Kasher

  Thinking, Littles, Way

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

  Bob Barker

  Thinking, Numbers, Important

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• The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

  Geezer Butler

  Hair, Band, Calling

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• The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or intravenous drug users.

  Annie Lennox

  Gay, Thinking, Drug

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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• Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Strong, Women

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• I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Golf, Play

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• My kids are around pit bulls every day. In the ’70s they blamed Dobermans, in the ’80s they blamed German Shepherds, in the ’90s they blamed the Rottweiler. Now they blame the Pit Bull.

  Cesar Millan

  Kids, Shepherds, Rottweilers

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• It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Interesting, Desire

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!

  Rose McGowan

  Home, School, Years

  "Rose is rising". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Names, One Day

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I've been vegetarian since the 80s and, lately, even vegan. And I once happened to witness the slaughter of a cow. What atrocity must undergo an animal to satisfy the appetite of those fat
  men who eat hamburgers!

  Anthony Kiedis

  Animal, Men, Atrocities

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• Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

  Richard Simmons

  Men, Letters, Discrimination

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• America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rights, Collective Unconscious, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  Will Forte

  Stupid, Inspiration, Names

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• In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Artist, Giving, Labels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the recording process I do listen to other artists a lot and other albums and albums I am loving lately, or ones that I still love that came out in the 80s or 70s.

  William Beckett

  Artist, Albums, Process

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• One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?

  Richard Meltzer

  Jobs, Writing, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.

  Rhys Darby

  Dad, Army, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Italy, especially in '70s and '80s, there was a lot of racism between north and south. And my mom immigrated from the south to the north, from Puglia, the heel of Italy. But what made me feel different was society, not my family.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Racism, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

  Bucky Pope

  Song, Rocks, Band

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really love something about being around the recording studios - you know, like, those days in the '80s they'd be, like, in the studio 'til 4, 5, 6 in the morning working on these songs.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Morning, Recording Studio

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

  Akeem Ayers

  Grandma, Great Grandma

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