80s Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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 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 '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

  Paul Kantner

  Real, Way, Force

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• Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Home, Black, Way

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• I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.

  Nigel Kneale

  Fans, Television

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• When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.

  Bryan Ferry

  Mistake, Moving, Thinking

  "Roxy Music legend Bryan Ferry unwinds in Paris" by Talia Soghomonian, December 2002.

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• Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.

  Peter Steele

  Song, Writing, Style

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• I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

  Lee Majors

  Done, Series, Majors

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• In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.

  Anthony

  Art, Drug, My Family

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• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  Gary Numan

  Wall, Disappointment, Dark

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• The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Cards, Credit

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• I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Media, Needs

  "José Padilha Talks ROBOCOP - Avoiding Aronofsky’s Script, His Take on the Material, Quieting the Rumor Mill, and More" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. September 26, 2011.

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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 remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

  Jay McInerney

  New York, Book, Thinking

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• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  Jack Nicholson

  Golf, Years, Lasts

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• Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

  Bruce Cockburn

  War, World, Found

  "Gavin's Woodpile". www.brucecockburn.org. December 15, 2012.

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• My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Impact, Intuition, Balls

  "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

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• There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A.

  Christopher Hampton

  Film, Moments, Wanted

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• The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.

  Mike Thibault

  Memories, Reality, Nba

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• I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through the world in the '80s. Today's generation sees it more as something to live with and something to be much less fearful of. And that comes with a sense of, dare I say, laziness. We need to be really vigilant and open about the fact that these drugs are not to be taken to increase our ability to have recreational sex.

  Zachary Quinto

  Sex, Taken, Thinking

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• I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Thank You, Feelings, Obsessed

  "There Is Only One Issue In America" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2011.

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• I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

  George Strait

  Careers, People, Want

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• How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Band, Replacements, Being The Best

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