80s Quotes - page 5

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 and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out. (Lauren Weisberger)
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 intravenous drug users. View quote
Annie Lennox
Twenty years ago I thought: "What's the difference between eating a bloody steak and killing my dog, slitting him open and roasting him?" I've always loved animals but it was around the late 80s that I realised I had to go vegetarian. A lot of things converged in my life then – musically, emotionally – but mainly it was my love of animals and spending so much time touring that made me decide I had to change my diet. In the Runaways we used to eat a ton of junk food. So something had to give. View quote
Joan Jett
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy. View quote
Baz Luhrmann
I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s. View quote
Mayim Bialik
I was the original voice of Mattel's Barbie for an '80s claymation workout video. View quote
Jodi Benson
Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur. View quote
Manolo Blahnik
I think it was wrong to take the decision to slow F1 down. It was much better in my day, when it was already a lot safer than it had been in the '70s and '80s, but you could still drive crazy fast. View quote
Jacques Villeneuve
Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa. View quote
Ron Wood
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. View quote
Ron Wood
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests. (Naomi Wolf)
I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion. View quote
Valentino Garavani
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 do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science. View quote
John Maeda
I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself. View quote
Scott Ian
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. View quote
Joe E. Lewis
I love Steven Wright. I was in high school in the '80s, and there was a lot of stand up on television. View quote
Demetri Martin
Since mobile, indie and retro inspired games are built on a legacy of inequality in the medium the new wave of 80s and 90s nostalgia has brought with it a resurrection of the worst of the old-school damsel in distress stereotypes. Indeed, many of these new titles essentially function as love letters to the trope as a way of paying homage to classic games of years gone by. View quote
Anita Sarkeesian
Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. View quote
Harvey Pekar
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was. View quote
Akon
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along. View quote
Joe Elliott
In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me. (Al Yankovic)
We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time. View quote
Angeles Mastretta
I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again. View quote
Ann Wilson
The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity. View quote
Antonio Munoz Molina
For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways. View quote
Beth Ditto