In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. – Michael Kinsley
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late ’70s. – Michael Rapaport
In the late ’70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I’ll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn’t just someone yelling their head off. – Meredith Monk
I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho. – David Byrne
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. – Emile M. Cioran
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center. – Chris Cornell
When I was I younger I didn’t want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn’t want to be a clone. Now this was in the late ’70s. – Neil Tennant
To be honest, it’s considered very late to start acting at 11 and a half, for the industry. Most kids are doing it from toddlerhood on. – Mayim Bialik
I have a weak spot for late ’60s-early ’70s yippie paperbacks and protest manifestos. I find them at flea markets or online. One of my favorites is ‘Right On,’ a compendium of student protests made into this 95-cent paperback with the most amazing graphics. – Doug Aitken
I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy. – Ed Asner
I feel that I’m leaving Williamstown too early, but I’d rather leave too early than too late. – Michael Ritchie
If there’s a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I’ll work ’till exhausted. – Dave Brubeck
The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then. – Denzel Washington
I’d rather get up early and go out and do something than stay up late and screw up my body. – Mike Shinoda
During the late ’50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist. – Gore Vidal
In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors. – Mark Shand
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. – Neville Marriner
From the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. – Noam Chomsky
The Naxalite revolution – an ultra-left Maoist movement – in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of ‘The Lives of Others.’ – Neel Mukherjee
I just have that sort of face and when I got to Hollywood in the late ’70s they took one look at me and said, ‘Get him a gun. You definitely should be carrying a gun,’ and so a lot of it is just the way I look. I look like I’m angry and dangerous, and in fact, I’m loveable and kind. – M. C. Gainey
It seems like the reason that I miss the science fiction from the late ’70s and ’80s is that at that period, they really were doing interesting, introspective human stories that just happened to take place in science fiction settings. – Duncan Jones
A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO’s now late, probably soon to be lamented ‘Chris Rock Show.’ So it’s surprising how much fun the character’s film debut, ‘Pootie Tang,’ is. – Elvis Mitchell
The committee discloses that even after the U.S. government learned of the diversion of U.S. designs for nuclear warheads in late 1995, the Clinton Administration failed to take steps immediately to improve security. – Charles Bass
I always lamented that I wasn’t a writer during the late ’60s and the early ’70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people. – Meghan Daum