Fifties Quotes

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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to… — Sanjeev Bhaskar
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids. — Anne Hull
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:… — Noam Chomsky
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came… — Robert Gottlieb
Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices. — Robert Gottlieb
The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working… — Andie MacDowell
I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left,… — Edmund White
The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up… — Edmund White
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for… — James Gleick
My older brother had a lot of Elvis on vinyl, and really, that was my first introduction to music during the Fifties. — Kiki Dee
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions. — Nguyen Cao Ky
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. — Oscar Hijuelos
How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the early sixties of… — Mary A Ward
Legwarmers and shoulder pads and bouffant hair, stuff like that, no. This is a fifties-inspired quiff! Get a grip. — La Roux
Fifties over here, twenties over there. You know the rest, nigga, fives and singles everywhere. — Young Jeezy
You get out of there and you think you're done...but then you're still trying to figure out who you are. I don't think it ever… — Jonah Hill
Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack city bitch, rack, rack, city bitch, Rack city bitch, rack,… — Emilio Vasquez
I think the 3-D thing will go like it did in the Fifties. Nobody wants to wear those glasses, least of all the Queen of… — Liam Neeson
At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties,… — Gary Oldman
Daughter asks her Mum: Mum, how many kinds of penises are there? Mother smiles and answers: Well dear, a man goes through three phases. In… — Sharlene05

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