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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. — Peter O'Toole

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed. — Karine Vanasse

In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. — Caitlin Moran

Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent. — Andrew Rosenthal

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won. — Ken Kesey

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. — John Lennon

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored. — Ken Kesey

I'm a big fan of the movies of the '60s, more than a fan of the movies of the '70s. — Christopher McQuarrie

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially. — Tom Ford

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s. — Andy Warhol

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. — Alanis Morissette

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide. — Tommy Rettig

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. — Christian Lacroix

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year. — Sean Lennon

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s. — Olivia Palermo

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s. — Tom Hanks

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era. — Marianne Faithfull

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. — Jonny Greenwood

Occasionally it can be a little disappointing to see rock gods in their 60s or 70s up on stage. — Charlie Day

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. — Laura Schlessinger

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates. — Dennis Kucinich

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting. — Kat Edmonson

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS. — Christine O'Donnell

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels. — John Cale

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well. — Hank Azaria

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever. — Grace Slick

North American leftists just keep trying to relive the '60s, or to make the '60s happen again. — Dave Sim

New York in the '60s was amazing. — Nicholas Haslam

I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles. — Paul Weller

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. — Kurt Andersen

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century. — Walter Cronkite

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s. — Sarah Brightman

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s. — Hugh Hefner

You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe. — Yvon Chouinard

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. — Neil Young

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s. — Thom Browne

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s. — Gene Simmons

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s. — Paul Kantner

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s. — Joe Bastardi

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s. — Rick Santorum

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind. — Elsa Peretti

I've always loved '60s fashion; it's so sexy. — Pixie Lott

The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much. — Johnny Winter

Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff. — Robert Hilburn

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music. — Brian Wilson

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket. — Dave Davies

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock. — G-Eazy

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other. — Audre Lorde

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction. — Robert Morgan

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. — Valentino Garavani

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 '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery. — Gina Barreca

I'd always had a big thing for the '60s. — Miranda Otto

Many of our racetracks were built in the '60s - not much real estate for runoff. — Connie Kalitta

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin. — Patti Smith

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans. — Baz Luhrmann

Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope. — Tuli Kupferberg

I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner. — Barry McGee

I wish I lived in the '60s because I'm a big fan of the Beatles. — Celine Buckens

In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures. — Carl Wilson

My mother left my father in their late 60s. — Dito Montiel

I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done. — Joe Klein

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s. — Al Kooper

The '60s were a time of great change in American music. — Alexandra Patsavas

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s. — Lee Majors

Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out. — Audre Lorde

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis ... you know in the '60s. — Joe Cocker

I would love to try trends from the '60s and '70s and on but still keep my look modern and young. — Bella Hadid

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans. — Dave Barry

People get so tired of the '60s. — David Chase

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. — David Bailey

I think the '60s and '70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure. — Andrew Gold

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant. — Roy Wood

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

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s. — Anthony Kiedis

My favorite show from the '60s was 'Combat.' And maybe 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' — Stephen Lang

I've been performing since the 60s and I made my first album in 1969, so it's been a bit over twenty years. — Thelma Houston

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. — Keith Waterhouse

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill. — George Plimpton

Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song. — Mike Love

By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century. — Tony Judt

I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?" — Antonio Banderas

I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life. — Raphael Saadiq

I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the '60s. — Kurt Loder

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution ... — Evo Morales

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy. — Julie Walters

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way. — Angela Davis

I think my father had a lot of anti-establishment in him. He came through the '60s. — Willie Robertson

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes. — Gedde Watanabe

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor. — Simon Schama

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne. — Joseph Bologna

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

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me! — Terence Stamp

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s. — Bruce Cockburn

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies. — Jello Biafra

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics. — Sergio Aragones

Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older. — Kim Cattrall

The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high. — Ken Kesey