Nostalgia Quotes - Page 11

• Maybe I over-do the 'not-80s' thing. It should be a part of my life that I've got some sort of pride in, but I've got this huge chip on my shoulder about '80s nostalgia - and it annoys fans sometimes.

  Gary Numan

  Pride, Fans, Sometimes

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• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Heart, Thinking, Space Flight

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• As a band, it's just me trying to please my own basement-hardcore sensibilities that I grew up with. It's not actually the future of anything, it's totally nostalgia.

  Geoff Rickly

  Trying, Band, Hardcore

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Reality, Principles, Looks

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• He remembered his mentor, Lou Kline, telling him in the nineties that rock and roll had peaked at Monterey Pop. They'd been in Lou's house in LA with its waterfalls, the pretty girls Lou always had, his car collection out front, and Bennie had looked into his idol's famous face and thought, You're finished. Nostalgia was the end - everyone knew that.

  Jennifer Egan

  Girl, Rocks, Idols

  Jennifer Egan (2011). “A Visit From the Goon Squad”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

  William Gibson

  Culture, Becoming, Traffic

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• When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

  Bradford Cox

  Past, Smell, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

  Harrison Ford

  Emotional, Thinking, Behaviour

  "Star Wars: 'No nostalgia' for Harrison Ford". Interview with Lizo Mzimba, www.bbc.co.uk. December 6, 2015.

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• What seems real one moment is fiction the next
  and gone out of existence the moment after that.
  Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
  and change our only constancy.

  David Budbill

  Real, Enemy, Gone

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• If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

  Gary Numan

  Overcoming, Problem, Difficult

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• She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Heart, Fate

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• It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

  Adam Young

  Weed, Memories, Eye

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• Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Past, Political, Wish

  Michael Ignatieff (2015). “The Needs of Strangers”, p.107, Picador

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• I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, Fans, Stuff

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.

  Curzio Malaparte

  Men, Islands, Rocks

  Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

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• To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia.

  Rene Burri

  Photography, Black And White, Cult

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• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. -

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Letting Go

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• We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

  Donald Glover

  Moving, Scary, Looks

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• A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Years, People

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• I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

  Demetri Martin

  Remember, Used, Remember When

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• There will be a Led Zeppelin as long as there's a Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Robert Plant. This isn't a nostalgia band playing the hits forever. If anything ever happened and somebody left - which I really can't see happening - I don't think we'd bother to carry on. The magic for me is as it is now.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Long, Forever

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• Advice is a form of nostalgia.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Advice, Form

  Song: Everybody's Free

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• how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

  Robert Browning

  Sweet, Reflection, Mad

  'Confessions' (1864) st. 9

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• I'm definitely one of those people who feels that they were born in the wrong era. I don't know if that's nostalgia. I have a hard time relating to most current things. It's funny because I get associated with nostalgia a lot, but I don't hang out being like, "Man, if it were 1986... If only...!"

  Memory Tapes

  Hard Times, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.

  Jon Hamm

  Powerful, Book, Kids

  "'I am just a lucky nerd': Jon Hamm on why he can't believe he got the part of Mad Men's Don Draper" By David Wigg, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2011.

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