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1960s Quote by John Hurt

“If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound…” quote by John Hurt — Download Open image

“If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.”

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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

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Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot…

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Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

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Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail.…

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[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

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I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of…

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“A friend once told me a story about a former Black Panther leader in a Midwest community who in the 1960s had his phone…

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I was never bothered about my position in the industry. If I had believed in it, I wouldn't have allowed anyone to get ahead…

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Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer…

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My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words,…

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