1960s Quotes
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In the 1960s all my social life was underground gay. It was my own life. I kept it separate from work, where I went on publicity dates with Annette Funicello or Roberta Shore.
Tommy Kirk
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As a child of the 1960s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, business is exploitable and people are generally good at heart. But these cherished precepts, I realised, had over the years become increasingly impracticable prejudice...
David Mamet
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[On making The Dreamers (2003)] It gave me the chance of visiting a moment that I really loved a lot, the late 1960s. It was a kind of magic moment in many senses. There was a fantastic projection of the future, of utopias, which were very noble in some w...
Bernardo Bertolucci
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[Presenting the Lifetime of Achievement Award to director Sidney Lumet at the 2005 Academy Awards] As an old village poet put it to me in the 1960s. [If you dig it, it`s yours]. I dug Sidney Lumet back then. I dig him now because what he had to give, I to...
Al Pacino
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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 institut...
Margot Kidder
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Even more than MGM, Disney [in the early 1960s] was the most conservative studio in town....They were growing aware. They weren`t stupid. They could add two and two, and I think they were beginning to suspect my homosexuality. I noticed people in certain ...
Tommy Kirk
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I consider Peter Finch and James Mason the two best English actors of the 1960s. But I never understood Finch. How could he do something as beautiful as "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," but also make all that other shit? I mean he could read, couldn`t he?
Alan Bates
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Society was so much more prudish in the 1960s. In one episode of The Avengers I played a belly dancer and I had to stick a jewel in my navel because the Americans wouldn`t tolerate them. In those days you didn`t flash the boobs at all. What you did do to ...
Diana Rigg
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(late 1960s) My name`s not John Beatle, it`s John Lennon.
John Lennon
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[late 1960s] "I don`t believe in `My country right or wrong`. My country wrong needs my help."
Peter Tork
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[During his 1960s nightclub tour] "I want to keep going until I drop."
Nelson Eddy
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I missed life in the 1960s, so it has always been a dream of mine to live in a trailer and experience life on the road. A few years ago, I bought a 27-foot, 1978 Airstream from the Recycler in Atlanta. My boyfriend at the time and I shipped our belongings...
Jamie Luner
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The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s. It`s so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today that Mike Myers made a fortune with his own spy franchise [Austin Powers] - it makes for great come...
Matt Damon
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The Bond character will always be anchored in the 1960s and in the values of the 1960s. It`s so anachronistic when you put it in the world we live in today that Mike Myers made a fortune with his own spy franchise [Austin Powers] - it makes for great come...
Matt Damon
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[speaking in the 1960s] "It would be wrong of me to say so, but in this country [USA] money is more important than love. Most people here betray you and that`s why there is so much chaos. I want to get away from here. I am homesick for Vienna ... because ...
Hedy Lamarr
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[in the late 1960s, on how it felt to be an elder statesman of comedy] Like an old jerk.
Groucho Marx
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When you`re a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you`re always the villain.
Robert Vaughn
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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.
Amy Baker
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Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Amy Sowash
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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.
Amber Howser
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We were looking at the camp roster during our (team) meeting (the other) night, Joe and I, and I didn`t see many guys (born) in the 1960s. There were some `80s, some `85s. You realize how much older you are, but we`re definitely excited to be here and be ...
Gary Roberts
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has fa...
Andrew Harrington
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There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn`t changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.
Akhmed Zakayev
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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
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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.
Allison Daly
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The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing.
David Selby
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The majority of the players today wouldn`t have been able to play in the 1960s, ... They talk about guys that are bigger and stronger, I don`t buy it.
Andy Nash
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The idea of extraneous service has been on the way out ever since banks stopped giving away toasters in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ausaf Sayeed
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The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
Nick Johnson
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The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
James Grant
