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Bush began helping Enron in the eighties. -- Paul Begala
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. -- David Bowie
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois. -- Donatella Versace
If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience. -- Aimee Mullins
If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. -- Will Self
I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. -- Sara Blakely
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Back in the eighties, people thought a vegan was someone from Vegas. It's a different world now and I feel lucky to have been a part of the revolution, both for animal rights and gay rights. -- Dan Mathews
We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday. -- Bashar al-Assad
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. -- Derek Jarman
The first thing that matters: I am a child of the eighties. I grew up in a neon wonderland of talking horses, compassionate bears, hair that didn't move in a stiff wind, and the constant threat of nuclear war. -- Seanan McGuire
And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack. -- Jonathan Tropper
And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties. -- Patricia Hewitt
By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music. -- Dave Barry
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
I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me -- Iggy Pop
Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade. -- Tony Visconti
I counterfeited Mark Kostabi's artworks. During the eighties, Mark didn't paint his own paintings. Instead, he had other artists painting them, and he just added his signature. So what I did was to use some of the same painters, and signed his name myself. -- Andy Behrman
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. -- Seth
AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police. -- David Bennun
In Europe the world of fashion is too conservative, very eighties. -- Miuccia Prada
I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties. -- Gabrielle Aplin
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason
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
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. -- Kirk Hammett
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. -- Jean Reno
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. -- Bill Vaughan
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. -- Henny Youngman
Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists. -- Serge Lang
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf. -- Ben Hogan
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. -- Jill Lepore
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'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
The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor. -- Nicola Horlick
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties. -- Salvador Dali
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
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. -- Russell Banks
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. -- Dick Van Dyke
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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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