1980s Quote by David Lammy Download Open image “The 1980s were tough for most of Britain, but nowhere more so than Tottenham.” — David Lammy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1980s More Most Nowhere Tough
Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league. — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Tottenham was a dope place to grow up because it's so community-based. It's a melting pot of cultures. I'll always be a north London… — Letitia Wright Copy Share Image
I did not choose Tottenham for the money. Believe me, I could've gone elsewhere to earn more, even in England. — Vincent Janssen Copy Share Image
Tottenham has always been a massive club and we're getting the mix right. — Ryan Mason Copy Share Image
When I came to Aston Villa, they had struggled for two years before then. — Adama Traore Copy Share Image
I am not going to sit here and disrespect Tottenham one bit because what they have done for me over the years is fantastic,… — Kyle Walker Copy Share Image
It looks like things are changing in north London. Tottenham have gone down a road they've never been down before. They've kept their best… — John Motson Copy Share Image
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
For me, a hoodie is like a pair of slippers or pyjamas - something comfortable and well-worn that you can wear unthinkingly. Unless, of… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Edgy' music has always formed the cornerstone to any teenage rebellion. Most indulge in it precisely because adults like me don't like them doing… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
As I have consistently recommended, we desperately need to find more black judges, particularly females, who are chronically underrepresented in our courts across London… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Our political class obsesses over social mobility from one generation to the next - whether or not people are doing better than their parents… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
We should not let those with a political agenda use London's growing population to support their anti-immigration rhetoric, and we should challenge those who… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates.… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that. — John Grant Copy Share Image
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of. — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
