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It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda. — Bassem Youssef

greatest films ever made originate largely in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s - a period when Hollywood worked — Ben Shapiro

And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s. — Thomas Keneally

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester. — Tamsin Egerton

The world loves the 1950s. — Sara Sheridan

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

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters. — Jonathan Aitken

I don't care about Hollywood films. I'm not against Hollywood films, you know? Hollywood films were very good before, in the 1950s. — Gerard Depardieu

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up. — Jessica Savitch

I'm more a 1950s hourglass shape. — Sarah Hay

Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. — Nancy Gibbs

In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out. — Pankaj Mishra

You ingest the automobile in the very air of Detroit. Or at least you did in the 1940s and 1950s. — Edward Herrmann

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s. — Sara Sheridan

I wore a coat and tie all through high school: my way of being rebellious in the late 1950s. — Vint Cerf

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. — Noam Chomsky

The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. — Martha Gellhorn

It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was a waiter on a cruise ship. — Sirio Maccioni

Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s. — Thomas E. Mann

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — Sara Sheridan

We have been around in the States in the ski wear market since the 1950s, but now we feel we can compete in the sportswear field. — Willy Bogner Jr.

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia. — Edward Brooke

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s. — Sarah Hay

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise. — Huey Lewis

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government. — Garry Breitkreuz

Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?" — Bill Bailey

I was supportive! I was 1950s girdle supportive. — Kristan Higgins

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing. — Michael Winterbottom

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment. — Bruno Mars

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. — John Charles Polanyi

I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. — Jasmine Guinness

I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser. — David Iserson

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

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like. — Kelly Brook

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands. — Caroline Leavitt

Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s. — Conan O'Brien

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror. — Jonathan Pryce

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. — Nigel Kneale

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. — Liam Neeson

Female academics at King's in the 1950s were treated with a formalized disdain that — Bill Bryson

Nixon had sought the treatment of a psychiatrist throughout the 1950s. — Mike Stone

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven — James Ellroy

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s. — Robert Dallek

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations. — Noam Chomsky

When I get you back, I'm gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you. He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s. — Jenny Han

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then. — Dick Cavett

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour. — Sara Sheridan

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. — Daniel Clowes

Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. — Sandra Steingraber

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars. — Martin Winterkorn

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.' — Richard E. Grant

There are a lot of period movies where they say, 'This is a portrait of Lady Whatever.' And it's done in like a 1950s or 60s style. — Guillermo Del Toro

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in. — Nick Mason

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s. — Roy Haynes

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. — Romola Garai

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. — Peter Schiff

I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. — Al Sharpton

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.") — Scott Stossel

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time. — Robert Powell

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. — J. Paul Getty

He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat — Sara Sheridan

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood. — Richard Griffiths

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage? — Annie Jacobsen

Screw going home. This wasn't the 1950s. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s. — Liz Goldwyn

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. — David Hockney

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

When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it. — Steve Erickson

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai

1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost. — Robert Ingpen

In the 1950s and 1960s, it was a safe assumption that nearly everyone in your office had watched the same thing the previous night. — Chris Anderson

Growing up in the 1950s, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, boys were supposed to be athletic. — Chris Van Allsburg

The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me. — Aaron Lazar

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. — Stephen Kinzer

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware. — Bob Newhart

The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.' — Leon Bridges

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. — Arthur Smith

If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s. — Jerry Della Femina

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s. — Anthony Foxx

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. — Bill Bryson

Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city. — Randy Bachman

In the 1940s and 1950s, the grass surface on most miniature golf courses was actually goat hair that had been dyed green. — Will Pearson