30 Quotes About Eighties


  • Author Will Self
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    If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus.

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  • Author Ken MacLeod
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    The eighties?’ I said. ‘As in, the nineteen-eighties? The decade that taste forgot? Honest, Sophie, ask your granny. Ask mine, if you like. She’ll tell you the only good thing about it was that the internet and phone cameras weren’t invented, well hardly anyway, so most of the awful photos are lying out of sight in drawers and shoeboxes.

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  • Author Hadley Freeman
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    Refusing to go on a second date with someone because they failed to recognise a completely random Ghostbusters quote over dinner? Well, why waste time with losers? (It really is astounding I was single until the age of 35.)

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  • Author Hadley Freeman
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    Take My Breath Away (from Top Gun): This song is so good it makes having sex with Tom Cruise seem almost sexy.

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  • Author Hadley Freeman
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    Daddy's Girl' (from 'Three Men and a Baby'): This song is about the love a daughter feels for her father. Sweet, right? Wrong! Here's the chorus: 'Little baby wanna hold you tight / She don't ever wanna say good night / She's a lover, she wanna be Daddy's Girl.' I love the movie but someone needs to call CPS, stat.

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  • Author Hadley Freeman
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    Pretty Woman has suggested that it is possible to lift oneself out of one's class (even if one has to become a prostitute and -even worse- spend a week with Richard Gere to do so).

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