I grew up in the eighties; that's probably why I like some of the earlier electronic from Kraftwerk to all throughout new wave and things like that.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.
All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.
I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
When I first started writing for television in the seventies and eighties, the Internet didn't exist, and we didn't need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Has anything happened in Australia since the eighties? I mean, besides Nemo being reunited with his dad?
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Did you know studies show that eighty percent of women have faked orgasm? And fifty percent admit to doing it on a regular basis?
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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.
