80s Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

  Paul Kantner

  Odd, Century, Pleasant

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• In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

  Les Wexner

  America, Important, Quality

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, College, Done

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• I love a good road trip. And I have been known to sing cheesy '80s songs at the top of my lungs on a windy road when no one can hear.

  Morena Baccarin

  Song, Cheesy, Road Trip

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

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• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  Candace Bushnell

  Children, Husband, Careers

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• The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.

  Colin Baker

  Writing, Stuff, Bigs

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• Well, I grew up in the '80s, which was a really massive time for sci-fi.

  Jemaine Clement

  Sci Fi, Grew Up, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a surprise to me.

  Billy Childish

  New York, Play, Towns

  "Billy Childish Interview On Stuckism, Humor And Moustaches". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 08, 2013.

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• Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

  Chubby Checker

  Hate, Rap, Black

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• The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.

  Curtis Armstrong

  School, Mean, College

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

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• I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Doors, Feet, Acting

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.

  Graham Coxon

  Focus, Age, Band

  Designer Magazine Interview, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

  Griffin Dunne

  Independent, Community, Amy

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

  Chuck Eddy

  Giving Up, Rap, Late

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  Dan Fogler

  Kids, My Favorite, Grew Up

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• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  Sam Farr

  Hippie, Essence, California

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• So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!

  Cee Lo Green

  Growing Up, Band, World

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I've been such an oddball my whole life'". Interview with Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2010.

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• People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

  Martin Gore

  Song, America, People

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• I had the '80s hair and braces and a 6-3 frame as a 16-year-old.

  Matthew Emmons

  Hair, Years, Braces

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• I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

  Gillian Flynn

  Kids, Secret Places, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

  Guy Fieri

  Men, Thinking, Games

  "Guy Fieri on Why He Was Born to Host Minute to Win It". Interview with Kate Stanhope, www.tvguide.com. March 13, 2010.

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• I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

  John Frankenheimer

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Film

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