80s Quotes
243 quotes by 216 authors
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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…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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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
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I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it…
— Mayer Hawthorne
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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.…
— Mayer Hawthorne
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It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because…
— Jim Jarmusch
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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…
— Janis Ian
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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the…
— Patricia Ireland
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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…
— Naveen Jain
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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…
— John Maeda
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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-N.Y. painting.
— Deborah Kass
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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…
— Alyssa Milano
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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…
— Gary Kemp
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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
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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…
— Vincent Kartheiser
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We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the…
— Chris Hardwick
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I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise…
— Martin Parr
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A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set…
— Daniel Yankelovich
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I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s…
— Lauren Weisberger
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In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
— Baz Luhrmann
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Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to…
— Naomi Klein
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