Sixty Quotes - Page 21

• Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

  Garry Winogrand

  War, Rights, Black

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.

  Jay Michaelson

  Dream, Roots, Broken

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginning when he's about to discover that he needs to come out and one is the dream where he's flattered (??) and then he comes out. The last one, instead of going bigger, we made it smaller. We removed elements and thinned it out. So it doesn't drive him. He drives the music rather than the other way around.

  A. R. Rahman

  Dream, Design, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.

  Ralph Nader

  Doctors, People, Choices

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

  Leonard Cohen

  Culture, Feels, Shabby

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Government, Years

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• We went 60 years or more with no immigration, folks. It can be done. The only reason that it started up again, Ted Kennedy started bellyaching about it in the mid-sixties, and then that led to Simpson-Mazzoli 20 years later, 1986, amnesty for about 3.9 million, and we were told that would be it, never again, and of course now we're where we are.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Years, Amnesty, Immigration

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• The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  America, Vision, Paradise

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• ...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out out of the West and reached the mirage.

  Joan Didion

  New York, Spring, Twilight

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• English suspenders not American. Could you imagine? Just a pair of knickers and some suspenders. I don't know. How would you wear that? I think this is kind of a cute first date look. A mini sixties Ossie Clark inspired mini dress with a pair on your trotters.

  Alexa Chung

  Cute, Thinking, Pairs

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogannaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

  Ishmael Reed

  Movement, Skeptical

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

  David Bowie

  Gay, Thinking, Style

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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• But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Colour

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• George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears his mind. Sometimes just a little too much.

  Jay Leno

  Work Out, Mind, Littles

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• It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.

  Garry Winogrand

  Jobs, Thinking, Interesting

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• In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."

  Robin Williams

  California, Nazi, States

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". Documentary, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.

  Paula Scher

  Get Better, Done, Want

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• I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Thinking, People, Groups

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• It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

  H. G. Wells

  Russia, Government, Order

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• If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

  Aaron Copland

  Play, Want, Knows

  "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

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• Doing things the way you see it, going by your own heart and soul, that is pure artistic integrity. Whether the hair is six or sixty inches long, the eyes have make-up or not, the riffs are in 'E' or 'F' sharp, the amps are Marshall or not, all those things don't matter if you are doing it for the right reason, which to me means doing it for yourself!!

  Lars Ulrich

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

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• What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

  Mark McGwire

  Thank You, Sports, Home

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

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• In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

  John Connally

  Strong, Political, Politics

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