Fifties Quotes

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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights… — Jerry Saltz
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties. — Pete Seeger
I fought for peace in the fifties. — Pete Seeger
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen… — Pete Seeger
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least… — Hunter S. Thompson
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos… — Alice Walker
What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered… — will.i.am
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ross believed in past lives. Moreover, he believed that the person you fell in love with in each life was the same person you fell… — Jodi Picoult
Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written… — Francesca Lia Block
Go to the tea shop anywhere along the Ganga, sir, and look at the men working in that tea shop - men, I say, but… — Aravind Adiga
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. — Derek Landy
If this were the fifties, sheâ€™d be checking Samâ€™s collars for lipstick stains. (Did people do that anymore? Why did women kiss collars, anyway? Besides,… — Charlaine Harris
If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my… — Stephen King
When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and… — George Burns
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and… — Warren Farrell
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the… — Romola Garai
The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess… — Philip Treacy
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe… — Duane Michals
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino

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