Sixty Quotes - Page 4

• Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Disease, Hips

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• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  Carlos Santana

  Mother, Kings, Eye

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• Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Attitude, Years

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• When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

  Gail Sheehy

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

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• Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Done, Four

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• Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Taken, Years, People

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• Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

  David Foster Wallace

  Rap, Pride, Black

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

  Julie Walters

  Retirement, Home, Opportunity

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• I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.

  Dionne Warwick

  Country, Stress, Past

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• I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Trying, Dollars

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• This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fire, Two, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did your search pay off? M: That's the hard part. I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Long, Perfection

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• I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

  Bernard Berenson

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

  Jasper Fforde

  Teacher, Eight, Years

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• If this keeps up, we’re going to own Melengar,” Hadrian mentioned. “What’s this we stuff?” Royce asked. “You’re retired, remember?” “Oh? So you’ll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?” “Sixty-forty?” Royce proposed.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Stuff, Hadrian, Remember

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

  Charles Wright

  Giving, Important, Alive

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Believe, Mean

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• For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Cutting, Army

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• A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much?

  Jim Goad

  Writing, Kids, Night

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• Sixty-five seconds," he said. "You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them." He let out a breath. "Never again.

  Jill Shalvis

  Breathing, Found You, Said

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.108, Harlequin

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• I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Talking, Years

  Lewis Carroll (2017). “Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books”, p.110, Lulu.com

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• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  Miranda July

  Girl, Dog, War

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Used titanium hunting knife: sixty-three dollars. Value: priceless.

  Tina St. John

  Hunting, Knives, Dollars

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• Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.

  Roger Maris

  Running, Home, Records

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