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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling. — Don Rickles

How did all that revolutionary talk of the seventies land us in a place where being female means playing dumb and looking good? — Claire Messud

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies. — Elle Fanning

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. — Donald Hall

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it. — Grace Paley

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going. — Mike Lowell

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies. — David Cassidy

The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep. — Lemmy Kilmister

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted. — Anika Noni Rose

My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them. — Kelly Wearstler

People have SMS, right? It stinks. It's a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers. — Jan Koum

Sometimes I feel as if I've lived about five lifetimes...all fictionalized in my five books. — Laurel-Rain Snow

I loved the seventies. — Diane Von Furstenberg

If the seventies were bulbous, and the eighties sharp, the nineties were nothing but bogus. — Will Self

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most. — Ice Cube

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist. — Friedrich Engels

We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves. — Gillian Flynn

RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing. — Irin Carmon

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies. — Werner Herzog

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

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him. — Tom Waits

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar? — Michael Caine

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles. — Jill Lepore

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head? — Christine Zolendz

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. — Florence King

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show. — Paul Michael Glaser

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more. — J. Courtney Sullivan

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. — Marc Maron

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget. — Robert Webb

I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man. — Kacey Musgraves

Luckily the god of How-Did-Children-Survive-in-the-Seventies was looking out for us — Jenny Lawson

I can't even remember when the Seventies was. — Robbie Keane

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available. — Susumu Tonegawa

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. — Dick Van Dyke

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. — Richard Rosen

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

Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place. — Rachel Kushner

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life. — Robin S

The door opened and Decker was looking down at a small, balding man with a gray beard and wearing dark glasses. He was well into his seventies. — David Baldacci

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. — Rob Sheffield

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. — Doris Lessing

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Ted Bundy," I said. "He killed thirty or so people around the country in the seventies - he's the one they invented the term 'serial killer' for. — Dan Wells

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke. — Golda Meir

Kabul was very popular with the hippies in the Sixties and Seventies. It was very quiet and peaceful. — Khaled Hosseini

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. — Jerry Saltz

I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties. — Gabrielle Aplin

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three. — Joe Cocker

I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about. — Jack O'Brien

I haven't had any action since the late seventies, so don't make me jealous. I don't think my heart can handle an erection. — Elle Aycart

The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f
k are you? — Jaffe Cohen

In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right. — Tariq Ali

In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage. — Ozzy Osbourne

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front. — Lou Gramm

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying. — John Thorn

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be. — Rachel Kushner

Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. — Carol Thatcher

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is. — David Bowie

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up. — Tom Ford

I bet there's air-conditioning in heaven," I said. "Maybe it's just the perfect temperature - low seventies with a breeze?" Josh said. — Heather Demetrios

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties. — Barry Manilow

Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist. — Andy Kindler

It might have been the seventies, but if you're old enough for a moustache you're too old for strawberry-patterned trousers. — Jo Wood

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey

I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

The sixties - most of which took place in the seventies... — John Thorndike

People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies. — Lady Gaga

Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use. — Winifred Holtby

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times. — Ellie Goulding

Get transported back to the seventies ! — Tom Evans

Super 8 film is the language of silence. — Rebecca McNutt

Oh, to be seventy again! — Georges Clemenceau

I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful. — Douglas Coupland

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips. — Paul Daniels

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time. — Felicity Jones

The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. — Tom Ford

Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad. — Anne Enright

Although he could have been wearing a seventies lounge suit and she probably would have drooled over the polyester. — J.R. Ward

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. — Siri Hustvedt

Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. — Ben Hecht

I was pretty young when I saw the original 'Planet of the Apes', and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it. — Gregory Keyes

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right. — Confucius

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing. — Paul Goldberger

My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez. — Jerry Hall

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies. — John Oates

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts! — Ann Cleeves

My Pocahontas-meets-seventies-Cher-style shirt. Oh, how I loved that shirt — Jenny Han

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies. — Linda Grant