Sixties Quotes

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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent ... — John Connally
If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. — Aaron Copland
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it,… — John Lennon
It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex… — Rick Perlstein
The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten. — Hunter S. Thompson
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, movement,… — Robert Bork
In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal. — Damon Albarn
The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos,… — Joe Perry
The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems… — Andrew Marr
Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the… — Andrew Marr
I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always… — Diana Vreeland
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema. — Michael Winner
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim… — Craig Charles
The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy… — Nancy Reagan
All that Swinging Sixties. It didnâ€™t do anyone any good, did it? Easy sex and the Pill. Marriages were ruined. I never did approve. I… — Christine Keeler
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient… — Coretta Scott King
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands. — Jon Fishman
I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to… — William Robertson Nicoll
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. — David Foster Wallace
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a less respectable novelist… — Claudia Roth

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