1960s Quotes - Page 2

• The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

  John Lennon

  Retirement, Responsibility, Glimpse

  KFRC RKO Radio Interview, December 08, 1980.

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• In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Book, Effort

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.10, Lexington Books

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• Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Father, School, Math

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• I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

  Anita Roddick

  America, Traveler, Traveled

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• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, People, Listening

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• Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

  Jean Reno

  Real, People, Few Friends

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• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  Lance Morrow

  Real, Doors, History

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• During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

  Jeane Dixon

  Saws, Election, Winner

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• So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

  Michael Beschloss

  Drama, Political, Facts

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• The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

  Julian Bond

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

  Richard Brautigan

  Hate, Views, People

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• The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, Trying, United States

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• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Reucassel

  Running, Fighting, Scum Of The Earth

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• About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

  Rudolph A. Marcus

  Research, Too Much, Program

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• When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

  Alison Bechdel

  Growing Up, Book, Adults

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• I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.

  Bill Dixon

  Play, Use, Delay

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• All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Significant, Publishing, Fewer

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Dream, Dry Up

  "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

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• Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

  Wolfman Jack

  Play, Giving, Today

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

  Carl Schurz

  Freedom, Spring, Blow

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  Marlo Thomas

  Fighting, Equality, Guitar

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Today, New Frontiers

  Speech accepting Democratic presidential nomination, Los Angeles, Cal., 15 July 1960.

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• I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Grateful, Writing, Would Be

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