Sixty Quotes - Page 15

• Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up.

  John Lennon

  Dressed Up, Happened

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• There's nothing like throwing up out a bus door,
  going sixty-five miles an hour.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Doors, Hours, Throwing Up

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• Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

  Neil Young

  Rocks, Sweaters, Parent

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• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

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• On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

  Ellen Willis

  Illustration, Rope, Levels

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• I just hope Sammy (Sosa) gets the attention he deserves. Not only has he hit sixty-two homers, but he has carried us. He is without doubt the MVP of the National League.

  Mark Grace

  Mvp, Two, League

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• Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.

  Frederick Barthelme

  Sweet, Book, Mean

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• There is a vast difference between success at twenty-five and success at sixty. At sixty, nobody envies you. Instead, everybody rejoices generously, sincerely, in your good fortune.

  Marie Dressler

  Success, Differences, Envy

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• You are told from the moment you enter school that time is constant. It never changes. It is one of those set things in life that you can always rely on... much like death and taxes. There will always be sixty seconds in a minute. There will always be sixty minutes in an hour. And there will always be twenty-four hours in a day. Time was not fluctuating. It moved on at the same, constant pace at every moment in your life. And that was the biggest load of crap that I'd ever been taught in school.

  S.C. Stephens

  School, Sixty Minutes, Things In Life

  S.C. Stephens (2013). “Effortless”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• My style hasn't changed much in all these sixty years. I still use, most of the time, existing light and try not to push people around. I have to be as much a diplomat as a photographer. People don't often take me seriously because I carry so little equipment and make so little fuss... I never carried a lot of equipment. My motto has always been, "Keep it simple".

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Simple, Light

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

  Mordecai Richler

  Phones, Missing, Age

  Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.325, Simon and Schuster

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• All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

  Lester Bangs

  Book, Arbitrary, Falsification

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.442, Anchor

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• There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

  Lou Holtz

  Differences, Sixty Minutes, Twenties

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• I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

  Harold Brodkey

  Two, Space, Young

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• My parents were sixty years married.

  Roddy Doyle

  Years, Parent, Married

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• So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.

  George Wald

  Twelve, Defense, Gross

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• The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, World, Wonderful

  Interview with Luning Wang, picassoandthesinglegirl.com. November 2016.

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• I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

  Fred Rogers

  Average, Two, Use

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• They were on the set of Bad Santa, but I tried to keep the headphones away from them. My kids have seen Sling Blade, Armageddon, Bandits and Friday Night Lights. They have not seen Monster's Ball and nor will they ever. Even when they are 60. I will leave it in my will.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Friday, Laughter, Kids

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 21, 2005.

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• At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Years, Cities

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• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  Norman Tebbit

  Home, Sunset, Views

  The Independent, February 24, 1990.

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• And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.

  Olga Korbut

  Sports, Mean, Games

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• I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Years

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• Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
  ...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Florida, Rights, Expression

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