Fifties Quotes

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've… — Rowan Atkinson
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history… — Jackson Browne
I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement. — Kim Cattrall
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere. — John Cleese
Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should… — Susan Sarandon
It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life.… — Francesca Annis
When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who knew Capablanca, because… — Bobby Fischer
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties… — Dylan McDermott
You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't… — Cybill Shepherd
Other people get moody in their forties and fifties - men get the male menopause. I missed the whole thing. I was just really happy. — Rik Mayall
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear… — Miles Davis
In the fiftiesâ€¦ we were so busy being cool that we didnâ€™t know how to say the word love — Diane di Prima
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects… — Orson Scott Card
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of… — Mary Augusta Ward
Helen Weaverâ€™s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasnâ€™t there! This… — Carolyn Cassady
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts… — Robert Klein
Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport… — Bruce McCall
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. — Steve Sailer

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