80s Quotes - Page 21

• As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

  Richard Carmona

  Men, Epidemics, California

  "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.'

  Ernest Cline

  Morning, Stars, Growing Up

  "Relive '80s pop culture in 'Ready Player One'". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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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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• AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be sexually active and to sleep with men and with women and not feel you had a responsibility in terms of having safe sex.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Responsibility, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

  Jason Wu

  Art, Growing Up, Race

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• You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Years, Greed, Tragedy

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "The Charlie Rose Show", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• In the 80s I started running, staying in shape.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Running, Shapes, Staying

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• I grew up reading SF in the 70s and 80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.

  Kim Harrison

  Reading, Thought Provoking, Plot

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