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The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories. — Mike Thibault

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. — Duane Chapman

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s. — Christopher McQuarrie

I'm not a fan of action movies. I don't watch many action movies, I don't have a lot of references except for 70s action movies or cinema noir. — Olivier Megaton

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. — Andy Warhol

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s. — Tom Hanks

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s. — Alice Cooper

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage. — Charlie Day

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s. — Clemence Poesy

Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement. — Nick Rhodes

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot. — Drew Barrymore

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

I had a pretty hilariously gloomy few years in the '70s. — Peter O'Toole

I'm a writer, first and foremost, and I sort of take my cues from the songwriters of the '70s, who are talking about what's really important to them. — Tift Merritt

Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there. — Brett Ratner

I've been told that 'Midnight at the Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the '70s. — Maria Muldaur

For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing. — Amy Heckerling

In the '70s it was skateboards, in the '80s it was drugs, in the '90s it was art, and now it's my family. — Anthony

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture. — Geoff Johns

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today? — Karl Lagerfeld

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge. — Fat Joe

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

Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot. — Cass Sunstein

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me. — Sam Donaldson

We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.' — Tahar Rahim

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music. — Bret McKenzie

Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time. — Lance Loud

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference. — Beck

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. — Robert Hilburn

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps. — William Peter Blatty

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life. — Raphael Saadiq

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought. — Erica Jong

We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking. — Ace Frehley

I love Ali MacGraw and her style - I'm into vintage '70s outfits at the moment. — Kim Kardashian

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. — Marina Abramovic

I have this arsenal of high-waisted wide-leg '70s pants and overalls. They are more roller-disco than Alexander Wang overalls. — Sophia Amoruso

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s. — Rita Coolidge

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s. — Joe Cocker

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing, and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music. — Jessica Pare

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. — Paul Kantner

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath ... and even into the 70s. — Charlton Heston

Dear Dick, I'm wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the '70s has been read only as "collaborative" and "feminist. — Chris Kraus

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted. — Deana Carter

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it. — Daryl Hall

The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery. — Gina Barreca

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new. — Harold E. Varmus

'70s music is the kind of music I listen to. '70s clothes, I adore. — Bel Powley

The '70s were a hot time. You know? I was, like, the most calm of all my friends. — Gloria Estefan

By the mid-70s, I wanted to get out of the business. I was tired anyway. — Dave Van Ronk

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks. — Florence Henderson

My collection has a whole new cut; they are based on the style of jeans my mum wore in Texas in the '70s. — Georgia May Jagger

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur. — Manolo Blahnik

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin. — Patti Smith

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

When I think of Bollywood dance, I think of choreographies from the '70s and '80s. That was true Bollywood, what is now known as old school Bollywood. — Terence Lewis

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it. — Lenny Kravitz

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was. — Barry Manilow

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

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art. — Noah Baumbach

I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure. — Andrew Gold

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies. — Jello Biafra

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love. — Leelee Sobieski

Models are back to what they were in the '70s: clothes hangers. — Paulina Porizkova

If you think the '80s were dumber than the '70s, either you weren't there or you weren't paying attention. — James Lileks

I really like the relaxed glamour of the '70s. — Rashida Jones

When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. — William J. Clinton

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great. — Margaret Cho

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. — Joe Bastardi

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s. — Chris LeDoux

The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together. — Chuck Noll

As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows. — Erich Bergen

It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it. — Natascha McElhone

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year. — Gail Collins

When I was growing up in L.A. in the late '70s and early '80s, Michael Jackson's was the first face on TV that looked like mine. — Shawn Amos

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music. — Brian Wilson

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff. — Chris Hardwick

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s. — Jonathan Lethem

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording. — Taylor Hawkins

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'Well, everything was awesome.' No, everything was not awesome! — John Oates

When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship. — Judy Blume

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s. — Lee Majors

Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers. — Dan Hill

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women. — Geoffrey Gray

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13. — Alicia Keys

POP FACT Like the Passat and the Scirocco, the Golf was another '70s VW named after a wind. In this case, Golfstrom, which is German for Gulf Stream. — Giles Chapman

I would love to try trends from the '60s and '70s and on but still keep my look modern and young. — Bella Hadid

Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear! — Mila Kunis

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. — Noah Baumbach

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s. — Paul Weller

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies. — Michael Jai White

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper. — Steve Vai

I have done about 15 movies so far and am on my 5th season on That '70s Show. — Danny Masterson

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. — Zubin Mehta

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here. — Carlton Fisk

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s. — Jet Li

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. — Keith Waterhouse