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I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may. — Alexis Arquette

all dressed in mid-1980s attire. A woman with a giant ozone-depleting hairdo bobbed her head to an oversize Walkman. A — Ernest Cline

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity. — Arne L. Kalleberg

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity. — Adam Clayton

By the late 1980s people realized that houses did not always appreciate and that they could fluctuate like any other market commodity. — Ron Chernow

In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers. — Mary Cheney

The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika. — Pedro Almodovar

I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. — Kim Gordon

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. — David Hare

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. — Steven Spielberg

In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington. — Stephen Kinzer

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today. — Marty Meehan

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. — Zaha Hadid

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s. — Drew

The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying "Young Lady" after every sentence. — Stephen Chbosky

During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses. — George Kaiser

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s. — Eric Shinseki

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. — Ma Jian

I was a safari guide in the 1980s in Kenya. — Don Winslow

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. — Bill Gates

Dilettantes,' Art3mis said. 'It's their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart. — Ernest Cline

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s. — Jerry Brown

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s. — Jay Parini

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan

Hanssen, an FBI agent who spied for the Russians in the 1980s and '90s. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Joy Division throbbed in the background. — David Mitchell

Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos. — Marshall Thornton

I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s. — John Lloyd

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state. — Mohsin Hamid

Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack. — Annalee Newitz

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s. — Alexei Sayle

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland. — Ma Jian

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life. — Shawn Amos

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. — James Grant

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead — Henry Jenkins

I grew up listening to 1980s country music, mostly. Early '90s. That time period was my favorite. — Blake Shelton

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s. — James Nicoll

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia. — Ben Mendelsohn

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s. — Dietmar Hopp

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency. — Joanna Scott

Don't forget, the superior Betamax technology did not beat out the substandard VHS technology as the standard format for videotape in the 1980s. — Simon Sinek

I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer. — Eddi Reader

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. — Yanis Varoufakis

If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. — Bill Gates

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? — Cynthia Payne

This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts. — Michael Lewis

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end. — Nick Harkaway

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need. — Donna Reed

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress. — Lily Donaldson

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system. — Mark Skousen

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame. — Bobbie Ann Mason

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line. — Daniel Yergin

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy. — Stephen Kinzer

Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s. — Enrique Pena Nieto

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. — Anthony Kiedis

Let's be honest: in ten years, the man-bun of the 2010s will be equivalent to the rat-tail of the 1980s. — Julie Johnson

The only people who spoke to her were Jimmy Vaughn, who was sweet when he wasn't wasted, though he was wasted all the time ... — Sarra Manning