80s Quotes
243 quotes by 213 authors
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Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.
— John Hawkes
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I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.
— Jonah Hill
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Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.
— Julianne Hough
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I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.
— Annie Leibovitz
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I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their…
— Queen Latifah
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My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it, but there's a complete mix of '80s rubbish and current day…
— Mark Lawrenson
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The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population or…
— Annie Lennox
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I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I…
— George R. R. Martin
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to…
— George R. R. Martin
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Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality,…
— Marlee Matlin
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There's something about Michael J. Fox that I loved when he did all the '80s stuff. His way of performing all the physicality, which is…
— James McAvoy
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If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
— Paul Merton
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Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown…
— Michael Moore
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Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got…
— Gary Numan
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The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M.…
— Conor Oberst
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I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn…
— Katy Perry
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have…
— Alan Rickman
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During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically…
— Julia Roberts
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Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
— Gus Van Sant
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I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy.
— Chloe Sevigny
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