Seventies Quotes - Page 11

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

Ellie Goulding

Crazy, Wish, Hung

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In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.

Ozzy Osbourne

Holiday, Phones, Car

Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.

Ozzy Osbourne

Goes On, Scared, Stage

Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere.

Beau Bokan

Nuts, People, Water

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London exists normally in a state of bleach bypass. There's the artistic context of "Blow Up" and "Performance" and all the Sixties and Seventies British films that I grew up on, because I did very much grow up on British films.

William Monahan

Growing Up, Blow, London

Source: collider.com

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[Bachelors'] approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman.

M. F. K. Fisher

Sex, Pretty Woman, Meals

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My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.

Stephen Spender

Uncles, Writing, Views

1951 World within World, p.77.

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But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Eye, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

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Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Writing, Gold, Garbage

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One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.

Werner Herzog

Cinema, Poetic, Made

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To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service. They had reared their children and seen them take flight; moreover, they had fought through the war, their hearts in the field, their fingers plying needle and thread. They had been active in committees and commissions, the country over; had learned to work with and beside men, finding joy and companionship and inspiration in such work. How could they go back to the chimney-corner life of the fifties?

Laura E. Richards

Country, Children, War

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Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Powerful, Motherhood, Two

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How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Bill Hicks

Jobs, People, Vote

"Shock and Awe". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 2003.

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When people say, Your music was the music of the Seventies, I say, So was discoteque. The Seventies was also the highest peak of heavy metal. Pick a genre - they were all alive.

Gerry Beckley

People, Alive, Heavy Metal

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I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

Michael Caine

Morning, Fun, Years

"Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com.

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I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.

David Sedaris

Writing, Good Friend, Thinking

"Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.

James C. Scott

Morning, Eye, Night

"An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.

Joseph Gurney Cannon

Sacrifice, Men, Self

"Uncle Joe Cannon" by L. White Busby, (p. 278), 1927.

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Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

Poemen

Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

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You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

Robert Altman

Cutting, Directors, Film

2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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The brightest minds in our field have been trying to find a definition of science fiction for these past seventy years. The short answer is, science fiction stories are given as possible, not necessarily here and now, but somewhere, sometime.

Larry Niven

Past, Years, Fiction Stories

Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.311, Macmillan

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...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Mark Twain

Home, Cat, Tails

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This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

Langston Hughes

Morning, Eggs, Two

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I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

Anne Stevenson

Horror, Century, Glad

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I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Arthur Miller

Men, Thinking, Two

Arthur Miller (2013). “Timebends: A Life”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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