1960s Quotes - Page 6

• Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

  Yochai Benkler

  Movement, Analyzing, Weathermen

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• I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Age, Grew Up, Turbulent Times

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• It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.

  Richie Benaud

  Numbers, Leaving, Feelings

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

  David Boies

  Boss, Partners, Toms

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Style, England, United States

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• Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

  Phil Bredesen

  Expansion, Care, Pay

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• I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

  Nick Moran

  Dad, War, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

  Brian Eno

  Ideas, Tape, Firsts

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

  Denis Leary

  Running, Character, Thinking

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• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

  John Barth

  Teaching, Two, Bird

  Boston Sunday Globe, November 02, 2008.

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Character, Years, Law

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• I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Dream, Character

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• My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Temptation, Groups

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.

  Jon Meacham

  Dream, Believe, Cutting

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• The scale of marital breakdowns in the West since 1960 has no historical precedent that I know of, and seems unique, . . . There has been nothing like it for the last 2,000 years, and probably longer.

  Lawrence Stone

  Unique, Years, Historical

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in Savannah.

  Clarence Thomas

  Sex, Differences, Race

  "Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Injustice" by Steve Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Winter, Water, Degrees

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• I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

  Alexander Payne

  Italian, Film, Sideways

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• The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

  Earle Birney

  Writing, Men, Vancouver

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• We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Today, Peril

  Speech accepting Democratic nomination in Los Angeles, 15 July 1960, in Vital Speeches 1 Aug. 1960, p. 611

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• If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.

  Bill Walton

  Team, School, Eight

  "Seven of the Dirtiest Teams in College Basketball History" By Sean Cunningham, www.esquire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

  Richard Peto

  Cancer, Doctors, Smoking

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