All Quotes

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.
‐‐ Frederick Forsyth

In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.
‐‐ Les Wexner

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
‐‐ John Maeda

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.
‐‐ Henry Kravis

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
‐‐ Brion James

In the '70s, Florida-style golf communities started to be built for America's baby-boomers who were doing well and taking up the game but couldn't get into exclusive golf and tennis clubs and were looking for a nice place to live and raise their families.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
‐‐ Martin Parr

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.
‐‐ David Hare

In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
‐‐ Mario Cantone

In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

In the '70s, there were economists who argued that seat belts were causing people to drive faster and kill more pedestrians. But after 15 or 20 years of research, we can now conclude that's actually not true. Seat belts, on net, do make people safer. So, on an evidence-based process, we should have people wear seat belts.
‐‐ Greg Ip

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
‐‐ Nick Lowe

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
‐‐ Chuck Close

In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
‐‐ Zhang Yin

In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.
‐‐ John Hodgman

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

In the '80s, everything became too serious.
‐‐ Elsa Peretti

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
‐‐ Griffin Dunne

In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
‐‐ J. D. Souther

In the '80s I started running, staying in shape.
‐‐ Jerry Jeff Walker

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!
‐‐ Michael Kors

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under attack.
‐‐ Michael Franti

In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
‐‐ Huey Lewis

In the '80s, they were using an awful lot of technology but hadn't really figured out how it worked yet... You had these really great, simple pop songs turned into these gigantic overproductions.
‐‐ Adam Schlesinger

In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
‐‐ Hasso Plattner

In the '80s, when I was watching Bond films in the cinemas, Roger Moore was the man. I'll always have a soft spot for him. His Bond films were light-hearted and silly as well as action-packed. For me, this spoke volumes. It meant that, someday, maybe someone like me with a whacky sense of humour could be James Bond.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
‐‐ Madeleine Stowe

In the '90s, comedy was at a very low point, but these days, you've got people like Hannibal Burress, Ron Funches, Maria Bamford - people who can play any club, anywhere.
‐‐ Andy Kindler

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.
‐‐ Paul Weller

In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

In the '90s, it was cool to just like R&B. But I liked Nirvana and stuff, too.
‐‐ Autre Ne Veut

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
‐‐ Samantha Power

In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.
‐‐ Lorene Scafaria

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
‐‐ Vernon L. Smith

In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.
‐‐ Russell Pearce

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.
‐‐ Pieter Zeeman

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
‐‐ Isaac Newton

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
‐‐ Alfred Marshall

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
‐‐ Tucker Carlson

In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
‐‐ Samantha Power