Sixty Quotes - Page 5

• That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

  Guy Lafleur

  Eight, Should Have, Years

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• Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Brave New World, Two

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

  David Berlinski

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

  John Schlesinger

  Attitude, May, Late

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• But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

  Ronnie Spector

  Hair, Guy, Stones

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, People, Black

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• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

  Billy Carter

  Mother, Eight, Peace Corps

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• It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Self, Done

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Fixed Period”, p.9, Anthony Trollope

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• If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.

  Nat King Cole

  Travel, Way, West

  Song: (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66

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• During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Climbing, Parent

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• I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

  Paul McCartney

  Past, Periods, Feels

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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

  Denis Diderot

  Strong, Gambling, Hands

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

  Umberto Eco

  Life, Years, People

  "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2004.

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• None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

  Chalmers Johnson

  War, Loss, Fighting

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• A cozy home is not just a sixty-five thousand dollar house bought from Bank of America. A cozy home is a total consciousness of the two individuals within the framework of the home, and in relationship to the entire surrounding of this planet and beyond this planet. God lives in cozy homes.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Home

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• I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

  Victor Mature

  Acting, Actors, Four

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• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  Ian McShane

  Children

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• Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Upset, Black Veil Brides

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• By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, One Day, Knows

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• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

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• You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Twenties, Rich

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• A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult.

  John Newcombe

  Couple, Play, Guy

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• It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Running, Song, Busting Out

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• Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Lying, Flower

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• I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

  Marianne Williamson

  Doors, Way, Revolution

  Source: scottlondon.com

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