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Sixties Quotes

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

– Henry Kissinger

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn’t really available. I’m so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

– Isabella Rossellini

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music’s unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

– Jon Landau

I’m a child of the Sixties.

– Ian McShane

In space-flight terms, six landings on the moon back in the Sixties and Seventies doesn’t mean much.

– Jim Lovell

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.

– John Lennon

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces – destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

– John Major

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

– Camille Paglia

The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles – like they stayed up later.

– Alex Lifeson

In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it.

– Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I’m very proud of that.

– Cilla Black

There’s not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They’re out there. But I’m one of them who’s just continued on, following his own little inner madness.

– Creed Bratton

If ‘Trek’ is a hit, we’d love to do a series of films – a regular event. Look at James Bond’s films. They’ve been around since the early sixties.

– Gene Roddenberry

Here’s the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you’re assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they’re an improvisation.

– Dick Van Dyke

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women’s movement that liberated us, however.

– Cathleen Schine

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

– Mary Augusta Ward

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties – the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.

– Mary Quant

Certainly there’s a huge appeal to the ’60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things – the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

– Margot Robbie

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

I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they’re my idols. That’s Ice and me for sure.

– Coco Austin

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

– Dave Barry

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin’s remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

– Ellen Willis

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

– Chris Roberson

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

– David Bailey

Of course, I remember when everybody was thin. It wasn’t until I went to America in the Sixties that I saw anyone who wasn’t skinny thin.

– Mary Quant

In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent.

– John Connally

In the Sixties, conglomerates were all the rage.

– Jim Pattison

But the whole point of the Sixties was that you had to take people as they were. If you came in with us you left your class, and colour, and religion behind, that was what the Sixties was all about.

– Michael Caine

I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.

– Jon Fishman

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

– Klaus Schulze

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