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Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp. -- Rob Sheffield
I love heavy music, but you see, I had fallen in love with a radio station in Vegas that played nothing but Eighties music. That had a real profound impact on me. -- Dave Keuning
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak. -- Grace Jones
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. -- Peter York
I'm a huge fan of Eighties music. -- Dan Stevens
The Eighties proved we don't need liberals. -- Rush Limbaugh
In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant. -- Paul Young
I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties. -- Gabrielle Aplin
Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11. -- Mark Steyn
Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control. -- Kim Wilde
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. -- Barry Manilow
What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties. -- Dan Stevens
I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations. -- Kemp Muhl
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize. -- Bob Dylan
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp. -- Rob Sheffield
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54. -- Liberty Ross
All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time. -- Peter York
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. -- Rowan Atkinson
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility. -- James Balog
Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it. -- Brian Keene
The option is always on the table. When we [with Bjork] were starting as creative kids in the Eighties, we found each other. I was 19, she was 16 and a friendship was made. -- Sjon
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him. -- Conrad Black
I stick to playing Brahms, but I love listening to Led Zeppelin, and I've also been a big fan of Earth Wind and Fire since the Seventies and of The Gap Band since the Eighties. -- Condoleezza Rice
If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there. -- Jonathan Banks
I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk. -- Steven Tyler
My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else. -- Kate Atkinson
Suddenly, Westerns, which were our action films and what the working man went to see to blow off steam and have a good time, became boring to most people growing up from the Eighties on, because they're kind of pastoral. -- Quentin Tarantino
I do think that Live Aid (1985) (TV) was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties. -- George Michael
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, 'Hang on a minute - I can paint.' I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there. -- Ronnie Wood
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs - monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism - have been working their way through the culture ever since. -- Peter York
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
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs. -- Rob Sheffield
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video. -- Peter York
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. -- Kirk Hammett
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. -- Aimee Mullins
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. -- Dick Van Dyke
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Don't contour with blush - that's so eighties. It was an amazing trend then, but it's not hot now. Instead, go for a neutral contour color that's one or two shades deeper than your skin tone. -- Tyra Banks
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt. -- Madison Smartt Bell
The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. -- David Letterman
My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there. -- Zoey Deutch
I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life. -- Satya Nadella
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after 'Meatballs III: Summer Job?' His reign as Dr. McDreamy on 'Grey's Anatomy' is proof that there's nothing we love more than giving Eighties celebs a heartwarming second stab at life. -- Rob Sheffield
I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things. -- Dexter Holland
Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten back heavily into the games business in the late Eighties. But I was operating under this theory at the time that the way to have an interesting life was to reinvent yourself every five or six years. -- Nolan Bushnell
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. -- Bill Simmons
I've been caught in parachute pants. And on my high school yearbook, they used the wrong picture. They were supposed to use the picture of me with a nice suit on. They used me with my collar flipped up, in a fuchsia and white striped shirt. I blame Prince and Michael Jackson in the Eighties for that. -- Ice Cube
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. -- Jo Nesbo
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad. -- Rob Sheffield
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? -- Ozzy Osbourne
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
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. -- Larry Hagman
Bush began helping Enron in the eighties. -- Paul Begala
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. -- David Bowie
In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties. -- Miuccia Prada
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. -- Donatella Versace
The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone. -- Corin Tucker
Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties. -- Harry Shearer
The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor. -- Nicola Horlick
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. -- Will Self
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. -- Salvador Dali
I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. -- Sara Blakely
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. -- Serge Lang
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. -- Russell Banks
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. -- Jill Lepore
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! -- Dennis Hopper
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back? -- Lexa Doig
Shooting in Brooklyn is like opening a time capsule. Nothing has changed. Everything looks like it did in the eighties. -- Freddie Prinze, Jr.
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. -- Rick Riordan
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards." -- Rick Riordan
The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union. -- Rush Limbaugh
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. -- Marc Maron
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! -- Vivian Campbell
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes. -- Jill Lepore
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. -- Florence King
There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin. -- Michael Azerrad
I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is. -- Tama Janowitz
My mom was one of the original designers for Coach in the eighties, and she designed some classics, including the City Bag. It's the only bag I use! -- Jane Levy
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals. -- Dan Hill
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties. -- Paul Fry
Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-" "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered. -- Rick Riordan
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. -- Paul Auster
The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole. -- Dave Barry
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. -- Patton Oswalt
I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had. -- Jorja Fox
My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace. -- Taylor Dane
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. -- Edward Said
In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. -- Mary Wesley
The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. -- Mitch Albom
It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth. -- James A. Michener
Ironically, many of these people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan. -- Edward Said
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
That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties. -- Clark Johnson
My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut. -- Georgia May Jagger
My problem is that I always find jeans that are either high-waisted or low-rise, but nothing in between, like they used to be in the eighties and early nineties. That's actually the most flattering cut. -- Georgia May Jagger
The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by the eighties a termination required paperwork and signatures and a post-action review. -- Tom Clancy
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online. -- Al Franken

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