Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.
I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.
I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.
I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the head of Columbia, Harry Cohn, "It's my way or the highway. " I got to watch that. He lambasted me, "You cannot do this. You will fail. " Finally, after another hour of conversation, I convinced him to help me write the speech.
Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.
Bush began helping Enron in the eighties.
During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.
There's a whole apparatus for indie bands now, but back in the eighties it was just getting built. The early people really took it on the chin.
By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.
The Democrat Party loved the Soviet Union! The Democrat Party in the eighties and the seventies propped up the Soviet Union.
The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.
Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
Towards the end of the seventies pop was gaining the momentum and respectability was very high with groups like Yes and Queen who were making "classical" rock records. They were also bringing in big bucks. So the eighties became the "bottom line" decade.
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
It was R. E. M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex. ' All they had was songs.
