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1979 Quotes & Sayings

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I've been rapping since 1979. — Coolio

When I began visiting Bordeaux in 1979, only a handful of writers were there to taste the wines in the spring (and nearly all were British). — Robert M. Parker Jr.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman

Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer. — Michael Lewis

I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. — Joe Tex

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't. — Jack Nicklaus

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed. — Scott Stossel

For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew. — James Lovegrove

I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world. — John Christy

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances. — Mario Lopez

The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it. — Hun Sen

Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives. — Rebecca MacKinnon

In 1979, Dubai had learned a valuable lesson from the Iranian Revolution and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: trouble has its bright side. — Misha Glenny

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm. — Kay Granger

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died. — Rory Bremner

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. — Wendell Berry

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979). — Whitey Herzog

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. — Christopher Hitchens

Tried on daddy's 1979 rookie firesuit a while back. Smelled every bit of 36 years old. — Dale Earnhardt Jr.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic. — Azar Nafisi

From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest. — Mike Quigley

It was an agreement between (former Iraqi president) Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran (ousted in 1979) and not between Iraq and Iran. — Jalal Talabani

It's becoming very much like 1979 again. — Richard Wright

Young Frank Pastore may have pitched the biggest victory of 1979. Maybe the biggest victory of the year! — Jerry Coleman

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros. — Nolan Ryan

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979 — Nelson Mandela

I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two. — Dave Van Ronk

gluten has been implicated in mental illness since at least 1979, — Julia Ross

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget. — Bianca Jagger

Some historians trace the start of the War on Terror to November 4, 1979, the day the hostages were taken in Tehran. — Stephen Rodrick

I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it. — Larry The Cable Guy

Women are superior to men in decoding nonverbal cues (Rosenthal and DePaulo 1979). — David B. Givens

My first album came out in 1979. — Teena Marie

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete. — Jane Leavy

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.' — Bong Joon-ho

In 1979 Susan Sontag wrote, "Today, everything exists to end in a photograph." Today, does everything exist to end online? — Sherry Turkle

I started DJing, breakdancing and MCing in the '70s and I got my record deal in 1979 with 'Christmas Rap.' — Kurtis Blow

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own. — Olusegun Obasanjo

Hallowell, in his very savvy book Connect, cites the 1979 Alameda — Nicholas Boothman

As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there. — Alan Garner

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979. — Michael Weatherly

I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was. — Mike Royer

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979. — George Will