Eighty Quotes - Page 6

• The seventies and eighties are when the division was really good. The fights were very enjoyable and everyone knew when the next fight was. Nowadays, you don't even know who won a fight three days after it happens. We need heavyweights, the people want heavyweights.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, People, Heavyweights

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not the quirk of fate. It's not that America's best days are over. It's not that America's past was a fad or a quirk. It's not that the great economic days of the eighties were illegitimate or unreal. It's not that this is the new normal. It's not that all of the greatness in the past was undeserved. It is precisely because of Obama policies implemented since 2009 that this country is in the shape it's in.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Fate, Past

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.

  Peter James

  Book, Ghetto, Literature

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years and years ago - and it was her Mother's Day show. And I didn't know what we were going to talk about but what she decided we were going to talk about was female masturbation. My mother had invited all her girlfriends. And you know these were all women in their late seventy's maybe they were in their eighty's by then and then and they were horrified because Dr Ruth had a little she had a little chart up you know "female masturbation".

  Judy Blume

  Mother, Girlfriend, Sex

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "It's my way or the highway." I got to watch that. He lambasted me, "You cannot do this. You will fail." Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.

  David Copperfield

  Writing, Fighting, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In most cases, I don't know how much, I cannot say if it's ninety nine percent or eighty percent, but the problem with incestuous relationships is that they often come from frustration. And from need of power.

  Gaspar Noe

  Frustration, Ninety Nine, Needs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• Subconsciously, Islam took over me so it was like eighty or ninety percent of the fabric of the person I was.

  Rakim

  Islam, Fabric, Ninety

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

  Maurice Sendak

  Italian, Two, Opera

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Eighty percent of those people with a passport from the Netherlands who go to Syria as jihadists are actually Moroccans.

  Geert Wilders

  People, Netherlands, Syria

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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

  Would Be, Bob, Easy

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was just utterly oblivious to how difficult it was, and how difficult it was going to be, and then also in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties there was a boom of sorts. So there were plenty of stages. If I had started now, there would be very few places to get better and better.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Get Better, Would Be, Stage

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

  Paul Young

  Extravagant

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• 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

  Kids, Creative, Tables

  Source: wwd.com

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• Jill Stein, is - and I'll make it in a personal way - over eighty percent of the people when I ran for President knew about me but then I realized that when I was running, eighty percent of the people didn't even know I was running.

  Ralph Nader

  Running, People, President

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fans, Letters, Five

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

  Truman Capote

  Tattoo, Men, Common

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

  David Eagleman

  Two, Eight, Crime

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.167, Vintage

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• You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Years

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• I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

  Tone Bell

  Hate, Believe, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Made

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• Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do.

  Mary Schapiro

  Writing, Law, Done

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• At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in radical left politics and beneath it history students. In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the SA hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention.

  Douglas Pearce

  Views, People, Political

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• At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Years

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• Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Mother, Baby, Memories

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Japan, Cds, Two

  Interview with Maura Kelly, believermag.com. September 2005.

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