The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
You have to remember: I grew up in the 1950s, the era of cowboy movies and rock 'n' roll. — Christopher Timothy Copy Share Image
The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in… — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“One thing he held against the bird force was the curse of knowing always which direction he was headed in, without the… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned types used to mutter about whether someone was officer-class material. It's a phrase stuck firmly in the 1950s, but it expresses… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
“Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided through the streams of smoke,… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't like 'transgender.' It got so politically correct. I like transsexual - it sounds like a 1950s scandal magazine. — Amanda Lepore Copy Share Image
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s. — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s. — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
“The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade.… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
