1983

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Warner Bros., 1983.

An evil empire.

Ronald Reagan

On the Soviet Union.

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Reagan, Ronald. "The Evil Empire." National Association of Evangelicals. 8 Mar. 1983, Sheraton Twin Towers Hotel, Orlando, FL, USA.

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catherine MacKinnon

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MacKinnon, Catharine A. "Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence." Signs. Vol. 8, No. 4, c. 1983.

100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

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Gretzky, Wayne. Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer. 9 Feb. 1983.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

Inviting John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, to join Apple.

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Jobs, Steve. Quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, by John Sculley and John A. Byrne. Harper & Row, 1987, ch. 3. Originally a comment made to persuade John Sculley to become Apple's CEO, c. 1983.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

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Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.

Rita Mae Brown

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Brown, Rita Mae. Sudden Death. Bantam Books, 1983, ch. 4.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Edwin Edwards

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Edwards, Edwin. Spoken while campaigning for governor of Louisiana. 1983, LA, USA.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

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U2. "Sunday Bloody Sunday." War. Island Records, 1983.

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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Reagan, Ronald. "Evil Empire." Annual convention of National Association of Evangelicals. 8 Mar. 1983, Orlando, FL, USA.