Seventies Quotes - Page 21

• The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

  Richard M. Nixon

  Air, Land, Water

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.12, Best Books on

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• Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.

  Dale Carnegie

  Worry, Physicians, Patient

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  J.K. Simmons

  College, Degrees, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I died last night. Seventy years too young.

  Colin Thompson

  Night, Years, Lasts

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• If you're a kid at a secondary comprehensive in North London as I was in the seventies, prancing around doing acting and being a luvvie wasn't really a good idea for your personal security.

  Steve McFadden

  Kids, Ideas, Acting

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• A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Drug, Atmosphere

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• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Michael Steele

  Party, Struggle, Rights

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• There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

  Don Marquis

  Years, Mosquitoes, Sage

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• I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

  Lord Byron

  Two, Hatred, Religion

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2722, Delphi Classics

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• I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

  Philip Levine

  Dramatic, Imagine, Hard

  Philip Levine (2002). “So ask: essays, conversations, and interviews”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  Francis Bacon

  Time, Artist, Years

  David Sylvester, Francis Bacon (1975). “Francis Bacon”, Pantheon

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• If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S

  Grace Coddington

  Thinking, Years, Becoming Who You Are

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Horse, Literature, Language

  Interview with Janet Justs, ejournals.lib.vt.edu. November 6, 2003.

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• Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.

  Charles Colson

  Spiritual, Country, Social Values

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• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

  Laurence Housman

  May, Young, Dies

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• And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Uncomfortable, Ifs

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7414, Delphi Classics

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• Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product.

  Ben Hecht

  Waste, Products, Written

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

  Ezra Pound

  Should Have, Years, Able

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• Very commonly substances are criminalized because they're associated with what's called the dangerous classes, you know, poor people, or working people.... Actually, the peak of marijuana use was as I said, in the seventies, but that was rich kids, so you don't throw them in jail. And then it got seriously criminalized, you know, you really throw people in jail for it, when it was poor people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, Marijuana, Class

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• If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

  Mike Lowell

  Block, Failing, Percent

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• Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.

  Mardy Grothe

  Baseball, Games, Play

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• In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

  Grace Jones

  Fun, Hard Work, Thinking

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• The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Country, Years, Mugabe

  "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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• If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

  Jonathan Banks

  Stuff, Tvs, Would Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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