80s Quotes - Page 3

• I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

  Jonah Hill

  Hero, Ice, Magic

  "Jonah Hill And Channing Tatum 21 Jump Street Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

  Julianne Hough

  Rocks, Rock Music, Fantastic

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Proud, Feels, Colorful

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• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  Alice Cooper

  Grandma, Rocks, Nails

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• I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

  Ernest Cline

  Cereal, Vintage, Civilization

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• The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.

  Alan Rickman

  New York, Eight, Rocks

  "'CBGB' was never on Alan Rickman's 'Agenda' - now he's the boss"by Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2013.

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• No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Bumps, Levels, Fans

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• Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Bowling, Kind

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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• During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

  Julia Roberts

  Struggle, Simple, 80s And 90s

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• Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

  Gus Van Sant

  Style, Want, Documentaries

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 22, 2003.

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  Ernest Cline

  Cute, Girl, Ukulele

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

  George Strait

  Singing, Mouths, Miles

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• I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

  Paul Weller

  Serious

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, Feminist, Tests

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.

  Steven Wright

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Years, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of Black identity, and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Thinking, Black, Identity

  "Georgetown University professor Dr. Michael Eric Dyson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 30, 2009.

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  Hippie, People, Ironic

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Crafts

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  Horse, Missing, Towers

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• Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911 operators and air traffic controllers experienced back in the '70s and '80s.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Air, People, Emergencies

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• I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Sexy, Trying, Looks

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• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Abuse, Saws, Institutions

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• On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog. So there you go.

  James Patterson

  Dog, Kids, Hands

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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