The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort… — Mary Quant Copy Share Image
You go through these phases. That's how life is. Over the long term, you just can't do one thing. I saw that… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say… — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“1974 was a crazy, hazy time for Alan Partridge. The Sixties had come to East Anglia and it was a time of… — Alan Partridge Copy Share Image
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Their expectations, however, had grown grand indeed, and they were impatient. Increasingly, they sought not only benefits but also guarantees and entitlements.… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If you go back to when Republicans had any kind of voice in Hollywood at all, you have to go to the… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone… — Vashti Bunyan Copy Share Image
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“This sense that the world can be reinvented [evokes] the Sixties in this country, those years when no one at all seemed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility. — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Minimalism itself had a very strong iconoclast impulse. You think of the sixties as loose and liberated, but in art it was… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else.… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . .” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
“The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles.” — Karen Neches Copy Share Image
Even austere, puritanical Cambridge of the Sixties was infinitely nicer and infinitely more attractive than the world I'd known before. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's a million good reasons why the thing… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
“You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer.… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
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