1960s Quotes - Page 15

• The social aspect of blogging is just as important as the content, so to borrow a phrase from the 1960s: the medium is the message. And my personal experience shows me that the potential of this medium is extra large.

  Mark Powell

  Important, Phrases, Blogging

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

  John Waters

  New York, Lasts, Scene

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

  Lester R. Brown

  Years, Oil, Environmental

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• All right, so call me Miss Cliche of 1960, but the thing about the married ones that always spooks me is how sweet and attentive they are at first, when they're on the prowl.

  S. J. Perelman

  Sweet, Women, Missing

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• I'm quite good at water skiing. Dave Clark, from the 1960s band Dave Clark Five, taught me how to water ski in Spain one year. I can do jumps too. I used to go to a club in Heathrow, but I don't do it any more, as it's given me a bad back. I was brought up in Poole, Dorset, so I've always loved watersports.

  Tony Blackburn

  Water Skiing, Years, Clubs

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

  Jose Parla

  Beautiful, Art, New York

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook people alive, and directly and indirectly things changed. But, as I see it, the change is never through the music alone. It's also the circumstances around the music that will cause/create the effect. And sometimes it's just strictly accidental that a piece of music becomes a form of protest.

  G.W. Sok

  People, Things Change, Sometimes

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• I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.

  Christophe Honore

  Life Is, Difficult, Shows

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  J. G. Ballard

  Media, Cities, Childhood

  "Look back at Empire" by JG Ballard, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2006.

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• The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and the Democrats. They were fought for. And in the 1960s, it was the similar. You had incredible movements against Jim Crow, poverty and the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Crow, Vietnam

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

  Gene Weingarten

  Cute, Smart, Clinton

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

  Jamie Glazov

  Hero, Heart, Tyrants

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• The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Helping, Shamanism

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• My dad and mom were more like World War II-era parents, even though it was the 1960s, because they were both born in the '40s. They were young adults before the '60s even happened, and married, and already having kids. But by the time we were adolescents in the '70s, the whole culture was screaming at parents, "You're a good parent if you're open with your kids about sex." They attempted to be open with us about sex, and it made them want to die, and consequently, it made us want to die.

  Dan Savage

  Mom, Sex, Dad

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Family, Mother, Money

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• Perhaps the central question about [Eliot] Porter's work is about the relationship between science, aesthetics, and environmental politics. His brother, the painter and critic Fairfield Porter, wrote in a 1960 review of [Porter's] colour photographs: 'There is no subject and background, every corner is alive,' and this suggests what an ecological aesthetic might look like.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Brother, Environmental, Looks

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• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  M.I.A.

  Fashion, Uncles, Car

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• The color palette grew as the story progressed. The 1920's sharecroppers were muted and neutrals, the 30's and 40's introduced burgundy to the neutral palette. The 1950's introduced green, black and denim blue, the 1960's introduced orange and heavier more saturated color, the 1970's introduced more primaries, and the fashion palette became more recognizable as a contemporary one from there.

  Ruth E. Carter

  Fashion, Blue, Color

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• It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Running, Patriotic, America

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.197, Crown Forum

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• Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.

  Jackson Katz

  Father, War, Mean

  "Fathers, Sons and Guns : An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner". Interview with Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

  Stanley Bing

  Moon, Thinking, Levels

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• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  Madison Smartt Bell

  Ends, Begin Again, Exile

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• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not in management - were an interest group, a political interest group. And their main spokespersons were the Democrats. Their platform was the Democratic Party. And that began to change after the 1960s. Not for black or other working class Americans, but for white working class.

  George Packer

  Party, Hands, Class

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

  Myron Scholes

  Fargo, Late, Wells

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