80s Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Party, Rocks, Self

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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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• What was great about the 80s was that you still had record companies who would get behind developing you as an artist. You had these bonkers heads of department and A&R people who, even after a flop album, would let you make another one.

  Marc Almond

  Artist, People, Albums

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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• In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!

  Clemence Poesy

  Teenager, House, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country.

  Naveen Jain

  Country, Dream, Responsibility

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• In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

  John Maeda

  Art, Ethos, Design

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• It's hard enough to go through puberty. Everyone's embarassed about their youth, but if just happens that the '80s were particularly disgusting. Flock of Seagulls is not cool.

  Alyssa Milano

  Youth, Enough, Flocks

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• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

  Deborah Kass

  War, Order, Painting

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class (PHOTOS, INTERVIEW)". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

  Nik Kershaw

  Night, Band, Drink

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• And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Kids, Actors, Thirty

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• I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.

  Chyler Leigh

  Back In The Day, Great Experiences, Really Great

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

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• In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on.

  Kevin McKidd

  Football, Kids, Miami Dolphins

  "Today" Interview, www.today.com. Ocotber 1, 2007.

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• My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

  Juice Newton

  Pops

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• It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Stars, Feet, Saws

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• I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.

  Camilla Lackberg

  80s And 90s, Pops, Pop Music

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  Cat Power

  Country, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, Class, Office

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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• I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Kids, Cutting

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• Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Hip Hop, Sound

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• The way my mom dressed was one of my earliest inspirations, in those '80s suits with shoulder pads and things like that. For years, I ran away from that style. But now, all I want to do is shoulder pads and nipped-in waists and padded hips and peplums and poufed dresses.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Inspiration, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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