1960s Quotes

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The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

Remember how many beautiful women there were in the 1950s and 1960s, without any surgery? And now, thanks to degeneration, we have this.

I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

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

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.