Eighty Quotes - Page 2

• Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

  John Ralston Saul

  Children, Years, Promise

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Boys, Years

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• Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn't that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.

  Jerry Saltz

  Country, Art, Mentor

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• At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'

  Paul Merton

  Heart, Night, Sitting

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• Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

  Phil McGraw

  Thinking, People, Choices

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

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• Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!

  Marisha Pessl

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.432, Penguin UK

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• In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Exercise, Seventies

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• Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grandmother, Average, Years

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• We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, New Orleans, Humanity

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• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

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• Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

  David Bowie

  Important, Pixies, Youth

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". www.bowiewonderworld.com. June 16, 2002.

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, India

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• I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

  Sara Blakely

  Sexy, Aim, Gave Up

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• During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

  Bernard Baruch

  Character, Technology, Thinking

  Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”

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• How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Jesus, Years

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• And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Government

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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Jackie Mason

  Marriage, Funny Love, Cheating

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

  John Lydon

  Country, Clever, Proud

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• I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

  Juliette Lewis

  Cat, Pet, Kind

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Fun, Years, Different

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• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Twenties, Percent, Items

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• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  Lou Holtz

  Frustration, People, Confusion

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• Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

  Ben Hogan

  Sports, Golf, Winning

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