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There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.

~Bill Simmons

Topics: Basketball Because Best Biggest Drawn Edge Eighties Emphasized Favorite Get Happens Individualism Just Kinda Lakers Like Ongoing Over Passing Play Point Similarly Soccer Teams Teamwork Tipping Which You

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New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

~Brad Holland

Topics: Art Eighties Frames Museums New Now Rage Wave

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I love Eighties rock.

~Brantley Gilbert

Topics: Eighties Love Rock I Love

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'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

~Brian Keene

Topics: Early Eighties Experiences Growing Growing Up Late Like Looked Lot Personal Seventies Thought Up World

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I loved those movies from the eighties, movies like 'Working Girl,' 'Nine to Five,' 'Outrageous Fortune,' 'The Heat,' 'Bridesmaids,' 'Pitch Perfect,' and others.

~Camille Perri

Topics: Bridesmaids Eighties Five Fortune Girl Heat Like Loved Movies Nine Others Outrageous Perfect Pitch Those Working

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Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

~Caroline Knapp

Topics: Around Because Began Begun Beneath Change Come Communication Culture Differently Early Eighties Fast Furious Had Hit Image Images Immediate Intellect Levels Mode Primary Radical Radical Change Starving Text Than Time Visual Way Words Work You

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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.

~Chino Moreno

Topics: Earlier Eighties Electronic Grew Like New Some Things Throughout Up Wave Why

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That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.

~Clark Johnson

Topics: About Alone Detective Eighties Got Kids Last Me Moment Outfits Playing Tease Trouble Wear Wearing Week You

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My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.

~Clive Sinclair

Topics: Back Beautiful Beautiful Places Changed Clouds Cruz Decent Early Earth Eighties Feet Head Hills Led Life Me Most My Own Ocean Own Path Place Places Regularly Santa Since Through Zigzag

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The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

~Corin Tucker

Topics: Eighties Sort Teen Teen Years Touchstone Were Years

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