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First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 7.1

There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people?

When Bad Things Happen to Good People · 1981

★ 6.0

The power of money is a distinctly male power. Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. In the hands of women, money stays literal; count it out, it buys what it is worth or less. In the hands of men, money buys women, sex, status, dignity, esteem, recognition, loyalty, all manner of possibility.

Andrea Dworkin

Pornography: Men Possessing Women · 1981

★ 5.2

Essay

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.

Fran Lebowitz

1981

★ 5.2

Film · Action (film) · Adventure (film) · Action · Adventure

It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage.

Indiana Jones

Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1981

★ 4.8

Essay

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

Tips for Teens · 1981

★ 4.4

Novel

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children · 1981

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

We're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government, which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 3.7

Congressional hearing

Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

1981

★ 3.6

You can't be serious!

John McEnroe

1981

★ 3.6

Magazine

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

1981

★ 3.5

Interview

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

Jim Morrison

1981

★ 3.5

Film · Sports (film) · Historical drama (film) · Sports · Historical drama

Jenny, I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run I feel His pleasure.

Eric Liddell

Chariots of Fire · 1981

★ 3.5

On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

John McPhee

1981

★ 3.5

Poem

Though I have not been here long, I can look up at the sky at night and tell how things are likely to go for the next hundred million years: the universe will probably not find a way to vanish nor I in all that time reappear.

A.R. Ammons

Rapids · 1981

★ 3.4

Speech · Political speech

Those who say that we're in a time when there are not heroes, they just don't know where to look.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

It's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work—work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

Ronald Reagan

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 2.0

Feminist literature

Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.

Andrea Dworkin

1981

★ 1.9

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