1960s Quotes - Page 6

• Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Winter, Water, Degrees

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• Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

  Stewart Brand

  Dark, Age, Statistics

  Stewart Brand (1999). “The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility”, p.92, Basic Books

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

  Earle Birney

  Writing, Men, Vancouver

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• I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rock—clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipment—was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.

  Lynn Hill

  Children, War, Rocks

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• How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

  Douglas Coupland

  Generations, Remember

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Coupland, (p. 41), 1991.

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• Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Believe, Airplane, Men

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• I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Style, England, United States

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• I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Age, Grew Up, Turbulent Times

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• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Country, Colorado, Clubs

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• Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

  Yochai Benkler

  Movement, Analyzing, Weathermen

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• By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the Kasparov defeat they recognized that here was a great triumph for programmers, but not one that may compete with the human intelligence that helps us to lead our lives.

  Igor Aleksander

  Order, Numbers, People

  "How to Build a Mind". Book by Igor Aleksander, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2000.

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• In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

  Denise Scott Brown

  Games, Like Something, I Can

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• We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM’ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale.

  Ginni Rometty

  Ideas, Long Ago, Age

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I think it is important that people be made aware that the vegetarian movement has a venerable history behind it. It didn’t spring full-blown from the head of a flower child in the 1960′s. It really begins with Pythagoras in the West in the 6th century BC and has reasserted itself periodically ever since.

  Rynn Berry

  Children, Spring, Flower

  "Vegetarianism", www.vegsource.com. 2000.

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• Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

  George Ayittey

  Motivation, Inspiration, Feds

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• Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Mean, Style, Hollywood

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• Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Beautiful, Barbie, Thanks

  "This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being". Interview with Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.

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• Throughout the 1960s and 1970s devoted Beckett readers greeted each successively shorter volume from the master with a mixture of awe and apprehensiveness; it was like watching a great mathematician wielding an infinitesimal calculus, his equations approaching nearer and still nearer to the null point.

  John Banville

  Math, Null, Mixtures

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• The easy glamour of the French Riviera in the late 1960s - inspired by Romy Schneider's character in La Piscine - mixed with garden elements. Blueprint, botanical, lattice, Queen Anne's lace and folly prints are paired with cleaner silhouettes and proportions in a fresh palette of green, white and coral.

  Tory Burch

  Queens, Character, Garden

  FaceBook post by Tory Burch from Sep 12, 2013

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• I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

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• Everyone fixes up their face if it’s not ideal, you know? That’s because of the race-mixing. For example, a Russian marries an Armenian. They have a kid, a cute girl, but she has her dad’s nose. She goes and files it down a little, and it’s all good. Ethnicities are mixing now, so there’s degeneration, and it didn’t used to be like that. Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Cute, Beautiful, Girl

  "This is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being." by Michael Idov, www.gq.com. July 12, 2017.

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• I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

  Daniel Clowes

  Television, Littles, Beats

  "Daniel Clowes: 'You've got to be obsessed" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

  Steve Jobs

  Typewriters, Years, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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