Seventies Quotes - Page 14

• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Time, Fighting, Men

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• Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in high school from those in junior high, and those who are twenty from those who are twenty-five. There are middle-middle-age groups, late-middle-age groups, and old-age groups - as though people with five years between them could not possibly have anything in common.

  Suzanne Gordon

  School, Years, People

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

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• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

  Larry Hagman

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Opportunity, Eight

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. And, sometimes in very, very different places, because we all come from somewhere, especially here in Israel.

  Amos Oz

  Israel, Years, Lasts

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• [Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

  Emily Barton

  Crazy, Writing, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

  Liam Neeson

  War, Vitality, Renewal

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• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Bulls

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• I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Age, Born, Colour

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Able

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• When I think back on it, I have a sense of relaxation, as if in the seventies no one had to try to be anyone other than who they were. I'm sure that's not really true, but that's how I remember it, and I suppose it might be relatively true.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Relaxation, Trying

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Hands, Fascinated, Sixty

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.

  Paul Daniels

  Sex, Viagra, Chips

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• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mean, Rocks, Stuff

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• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

  Paul Fry

  Landscape, Salad, Rediscovery

  "Originality matters". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always remain a part of my life.

  Stephen Roche

  Beautiful, Grandfather, Riding

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• Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Jobs, Block, Sea

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Stars, Games

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• Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Years, Looks, World

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Blow, Russia, Years

  Roger Lowenstein (2000). “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, Random House Incorporated

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• When we had gone down there you have to remember KISS had never been to Australia. So all the hysteria of KISS that was happening in the seventies was building up in Australia. These kids were waiting seven years to see KISS. I was lucky enough to be there when we went over. We got the key to the city, it was just great.

  Eric Carr

  Kids, Kissing, Keys

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