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

I was brought up with a whole bunch of cousins in the Wye Valley during the hippy days of the 1970s. — Saul David

I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s. — Dave Davies

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley

In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him. — Chirlane McCray

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany. — Donald Rumsfeld

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees. — Don Yaeger

We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s. — Daniel Yergin

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s. — Lois Capps

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable. — Tom Ford

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato. — Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes. — Craig Ferguson

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. — Ethan Zuckerman

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons. — Jonathan V. Last

I can watch anything from 1970s West Coast rock to 1990s electro-funk - I don't care. — Stephen Mangan

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. — Ron Chernow

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films. — Michael Douglas

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s. — Joyce Carol Oates

I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter. — Jami Attenberg

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor. — Daryl Hall

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s — Michael Crichton

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them. — Ayelet Waldman

In the 1970s, the scare was about global cooling. — Maurice Flanagan

When I went to high school, in the late 1970s, disco was in full swing and anyone who was into it dressed the part. I know I did. — Paul Feig

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.' — Guillaume Canet

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s. — Jello Biafra

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan. — Stephen Kinzer

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s. — Steve Earle

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. — Bob Barr

I loved London. In the 1970s ... it was very exciting, really wild. — Zaha Hadid

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners. — Karen DeCrow

I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student. — John Benjamin Hickey

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom. — Roger Ebert

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer

It was in 'Esquire' in the 1970s that I first learned Nora Ephron's recipe for borscht - certainly an editorial first for that manly magazine. — Carolyn See

The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s. — Tom Brokaw

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz. — Marianne Williamson

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. — Michael Kinsley

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s. — Huey Lewis

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast. — Sheena Easton

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. — Henry Rollins

In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision. — Ann Druyan

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well. — Marianne Williamson

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that. — Maggie Q

The first clock radio was patented in the early 1970s by Sony Corporation in Japan. Digital — Catherine O'Reilly

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law. — Brock Yates

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. — Roger Scruton

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. — Sarah Hall

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. — John Legend

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s. — Charles Salvador

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture. — Eric Allin Cornell

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

I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s. — Eric Bristow

I was an avid reader of futurists during the 1970s and '80s. They were so wrong - about everything. — Hermann E. Ott

There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s. — Barton Gellman

The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s. — Peter Criss

When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program. — Tatiana De Rosnay

I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement. — Sara Zarr

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold. — Rachel Kushner

In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it. — Joe Wurzelbacher

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy. — Stephen Kinzer

My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that. — Ashley Judd

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. Our — Bill Bryson

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical. — Mark Billingham

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines. — Amartya Sen

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess. — Kenneth Baker

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press. — Steve Erickson

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. — Ken Livingstone

In the 1970s in New York everyone slept till noon. — Edmund White

I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995. — Gary Wright

When Hobby Lobby was created in the early 1970s, I was committed to use profits to help ministry work. — David Green

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s. — Edmund White

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us. — Mario Cuomo

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time. — Kerry Greenwood

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend. — John Burnham Schwartz

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.' — Ruth Rendell

In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame. — Carolyn R. Dimmick

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s. — Ellen Page

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier. — Anton Du Beke

...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole. — Kurt Grussendorf

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center. I rode shotgun in our 1970s Pontiac, — Margot Lee Shetterly

Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion. — Barbara Castle