Eighty Quotes - Page 11

• Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport — in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.

  John Gummer

  Order, People, Car

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• I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Smoking, Suing, Three

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• In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Heart, Men

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• Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!

  George Burns

  Sex, Fun, Lunch

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• In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Mother, Fate, Plot

  Observations ch. 10 (1970)

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• Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mean, Brain, Twenties

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• Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.

  Paul Claudel

  Eye, Years, Wind

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• At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

  Hokusai

  Real, Animal, Bird

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• Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fun, Moving, Golf

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• The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.

  David Letterman

  Dog, Confused, Spring

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• Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Humorous, Air, Tree

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• Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.

  John Corigliano

  Pieces, Percent

  "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.

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• Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Eye, Light, Musical

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• If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

  Vivian Campbell

  Dark, Rocks, Justice

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• My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

  Jeff Dunham

  Mother, Father, Reality

  "All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me". Book by Jeff Dunham, www.today.com. 2010.

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• I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

  Jorja Fox

  Thinking, Play, Film

  "TVGuide Interview With Jorja Fox MAJOR Spoilers". Interview with Michael Ausiello, seat42f.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I liked back in the sixties where you'd turn on the radio and go 'Oh that's Hendrix, that's Creedence Clearwater, that's The Doors, there's The Grass Roots, The Monkees, there's Big Brother.' You could just instantly hear it and tell. But in the eighties and nineties there's no way you could do that.

  Creed Bratton

  Brother, Doors, Roots

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• We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

  David Cone

  Data, Kind, Tendencies

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• It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

  Richard Dawson

  Kings, Crazy, Kissing

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

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• Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

  Caroline Knapp

  Communication, Culture, Levels

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• She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night.

  Eddie Money

  Night, Social Taboos, Hot

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  Barry Manilow

  Style, World, Great American

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Class, Icons

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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• One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

  Sid Waddell

  Three, Hundred, Divided

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