Quotes about 80s

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Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and — Ruadhán J. McElroy
The Government set the stage economically by informing everyone that we were in a depression period, with very pointed a — David J. Schow, Seeing Red
Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey
Old-growth forests met no needs. They simply were, in a way that bore no questions about purpose or value. They could no — Steve Olson
She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, — Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
We can be heroes just for one day — David Bowie Heroes
Back in the "leather and lace" eighties, I was the fantasy editor for a publishing company in New York City. It was a gr — Terri Windling, Welcome to Bordertown
I mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tap — T.S. Krupa, Safe & Sound
Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos. — Marshall Thornton, Lucky Days
Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice—all of it. Any way that I — Lori Majewski, Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly en — Ross Cheit, The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans. — Libba Bray, Beauty Queens
I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as — Valentine Glass, Between Kay and You: A Bisexual Girl's Cumming-of-Age Confession
The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons — Leander Kahney, Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present dan — Christopher Hitchens
Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca. — Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
The rest is just slow diminution and loss. A waning of the full and effulgent moon of my youth. Not that the bright ligh — Robert Goolrick
[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the ma — Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got — Skid Row
They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. Wha — Jo Walton, Among Others