73 Eighties Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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Ben Kingsley was my ideal choice for Gandhi, and he really lived up to the expectations of an international audience. I did not find any Indian actor worthy to perform the role of Gandhi in the early Eighties, though there were brilliant performers like Naseeruddin Shah in India. Richard Attenborough

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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

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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

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

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In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two. Rowan Ricardo Phillips

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. Russell Banks

Programs Columbia Couple Years Graduate Taught Eighties NYU Early

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. Sara Blakely

Gave Aim Sexy Pretty Dressing Up Eighties

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

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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

Time Care Laughable Out Folks Pretty Seemed Adult Idea Nobody Longer Longest Longest Time Most Alternative Understand Comics Were Any Eighties Explain Creating Hard Graphic Graphic Novels Even Serious Novels Started

My first arrival in India was memorable - landing at Delhi airport at 2 A.M. to start filming 'The Jewel in the Crown' in the Eighties. The man who was supposed to pick me up wasn't there, so I spent a very uncomfortable three hours phoning around hotels to find out where I was supposed to be. It was a major culture shock, but I adored India. Tim Pigott-Smith

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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

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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood. Walter Kirn

When I first got to Brooks Brothers, my mom told me she remembered how upsetting it was trying to find professional clothes in the eighties. Suits would either be over-stylized or frumpy, so she said, 'Make sure it's tailored properly.' Zac Posen

Mom Me Suits First Clothes Would Find Brooks Brothers Properly Tailored Remembered She Make Sure Said Got How Trying Upsetting Eighties Either Professional

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

Love Winter Jewelry Every Baby Montana Signature Hunt Out Boots Dress Silver Colorful Combat Look Pieces Around Sticking Go Doll Eighties Then Turquoise Cool Socks

There wasn't a game in the Eighties when you didn't get racial abuse as a black player. John Barnes

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