80s Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.

  Dorian Yates

  Steroid, Cautious

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• The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

  Heather Morris

  Together, Legs, Way

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

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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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• I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late '80s. I hadn't gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

  Persis Khambatta

  Stars, People, Gone

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• I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Moments, Vulgar

  Interview with Marion Hume, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

  Scott Ian

  Pictures Of Myself, Persons, Knows

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• It was in the '80s, so I guess big hair and high bangs. And I had so many gummy bracelets! While we were doing 'Full House,' we were like, 'You know, in 10 years, we're going to look back on this and think this is horrible.' But everyone looked like that!

  Candace Cameron

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it's as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

  Louise Mensch

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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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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• Throughout the late '80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we graduated to breaking into laboratories . As long as we emptied the labs of animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.

  Rod Coronado

  Country, Animal, Cells

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• And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

  Lee Majors

  Littles, Kind, Late

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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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• If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

  Julianne Hough

  Parent, Trouble, Ifs

  "Talking About Hair-Metal with Julianne Hough". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.

  Janis Ian

  Kings, Thinking, Years

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