1970s Quotes
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1970s Lyrics
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There`s so much you`re expected to do and you follow a pattern. You make a record, you do a video. I like to break the rules a little bit more and I did in the 1970s, I should try a little bit more now.
Elton John
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[on a visit to Israel in the early 1970s] There was no great significance to that visit, but I`m interested in the fact that Jews are Semites, like Babylonians, Hittites, Arabs, Syrians, Ethiopians. But a Jew is different because a lot of people hate Jews...
Bob Dylan
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[After being asked about his sexuality in the 1970s]: I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.
Elton John
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They`re really quite good, aren`t they? -- Speaking of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were opening for The Who on a tour in the early 1970s.
Pete Townshend
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[On the 1970s]: It was an astounding kind of time and I`ve often said to people, if I met you between `73 and `78, I`m sorry, I don`t remember three or four of those years. You`re on such a fast track and you`re up in such heady air you can`t breathe, how...
Burt Reynolds
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(Recalling raising his children in the 1970s)There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella [Stella McCartney] said to me: `Dad! You`re Paul McCartney, aren`t you?` `Yes darling, but I`m Daddy really`.
Paul McCartney
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The plan was, when I first started directing in the 1970s, to get more involved in production and directing so at some point in my life, when I decided I didn`t want to act anymore, I didn`t have to suit up.
Clint Eastwood
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On touring with Eric Clapton in the 1970s: "Eric would just completely pass out wherever he was sitting, whether it was on the sofa or the floor, because he was saturated with drink. The realisation hit me: `This isn`t fun. He`s not having fun`."
Pattie Boyd
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One of my first days was the scene in which Dirk Diggler wins the Golden Phallus Award. In the audience were a hundred extras who had been told to wear their finest 1970s clothes. All they knew was that this was a Burt Reynolds film. They`re sitting there...
William H. Macy
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[speaking in the 1970s] "I`ve been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock v...
Greer Garson
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Will it bump some people out of the ability buy? Yes it will. But I have to laugh when I think of the 1970s and `80s when we had rates in the double-digits.
Arthur Polotnik
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When you follow the demographic trends, there was a lot of business formation back in the middle-1940s continuing through the 1970s. Now transactions are being driven by ownership transitions or estate planning.
David Blair
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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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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn`t even know how to aim the camera in those days.
Akio Morita
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When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.
Bruce Dern
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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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We have not had tax increases since the 1970s, ... Since then costs on everything have gone up.
Kathleen Kennedy
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We experienced similiar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Alan Phillips
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They are back, classic 1970s-style Brawley Seismic Zone swarms.
Ashley McElhiney
Source: thinkexist.com
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The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today`s fans.
Franz Beckenbauer
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The most interesting guy I`ve ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I`ve never been that nervous in my life.
Lee Trevino
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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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People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
Alan Phillips
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Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America`s entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
Marsha Blackburn
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It`s much farther-reaching than me just handing over green dollars at a gas pump. I was around back in the 1970s when there was no gas, so I`ve been through that before and I know that was not pleasant.
Steve West
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
Michael Kinsley
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In the early 1970s. 1971, `72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren`t signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
Dave Van Ronk
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In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I`m sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
John Legend
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In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.
Amanda Leahy
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In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.
Alon Tal
