Sixty Quotes - Page 24

• Nothing ruins the mood during foreplay more than the recurring image of your sixty-five-year-old homeroom teacher trying to stretch a condom over a cucumber.

  Dennis Miller

  Teacher, Years, Trying

  Dennis Miller (2011). “Ranting Again”, p.14, Main Street Books

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• A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.

  Steve Winwood

  Change, Music, Thinking

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• I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

  Elton John

  Girl, Sex, School

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

  Leonard Cohen

  Culture, Feels, Shabby

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  America, Vision, Paradise

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.

  David Bowie

  Gay, Thinking, Style

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• But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

  Michael Caine

  Class, People, Colour

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• George W. Bush says he spends sixty to ninety minutes a day working out. He says he works out because it clears his mind. Sometimes just a little too much.

  Jay Leno

  Work Out, Mind, Littles

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• In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going "That's weird."

  Robin Williams

  California, Nazi, States

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". Documentary, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginning when he's about to discover that he needs to come out and one is the dream where he's flattered (??) and then he comes out. The last one, instead of going bigger, we made it smaller. We removed elements and thinned it out. So it doesn't drive him. He drives the music rather than the other way around.

  A. R. Rahman

  Dream, Design, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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• I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

  Ishmael Reed

  Movement, Skeptical

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue.

  Ishmael Reed

  War, Odds, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Looks, Week

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.

  Friedrich Engels

  Years, Victory, World

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) (1957). “K. Marx and F. Engels on religion”

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• The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.

  Derek Jarman

  Queens, Cities, Good Man

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• Manson's the man who's responsible for "killing the Sixties." He really knew how to play up the whole "most dangerous man alive" thing when at the time, the most dangerous man alive was Richard Nixon.

  John Roecker

  Men, Play, Alive

  "Punk, Puppets, and Manson as Messiah" by Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!

  Leigh Mitchell Hodges

  Morning, Weather, Yesterday

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• Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should Have, Yards, Impatience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.235, Penguin

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• The Bush campaign for re-election has officially begun. They're actually running television commercials. Have you seen any of the television commercials? In one of the commercials, you see George Bush for thirty seconds. In another commercial, you get to see George Bush for sixty seconds - kind of like his stint in the National Guard.

  David Letterman

  Running, Television Commercials, Campaigns

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• Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men.

  Marilyn Suzanne Miller

  Cancer, Men, Play

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• His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Father, Character, Two

  Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1853). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.224

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• My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.

  Kelly Wearstler

  Mother, Scarves, Hundred

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• It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Important, Age

  "Paris Review", Writers at Work, 4th series, (p. 250), 1972.

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• I will say broadly that I have more confidence in the spiritual life of the children that I have received into this church than I have in the, spiritual condition of the adults thus received. I will even go further than that, and say that I have usually found a clearer knowledge of the gospel and a warmer love of Christ in the child-converts than in the man-converts. I will even astonish you still more by saying that I have sometimes met with a deeper spiritual experience in children of ten and twelve than I have in certain persons of fifty and sixty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Children, Men

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