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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere. — Madeleine Peyroux

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 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. — Yoko Ono

Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s. — J. B. Pritzker

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

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. — Robert Darnton

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it? — Douglas Coupland

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross

Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics. — George Akerlof

The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s. — Nick Johnson

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply. — Os Guinness

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event. — Peggy Fleming

By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class - the teenager! — Billy Graham

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated. — Volkmar Sigusch

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass. — Janna Levin

We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A — Jason Webster

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. — Andrew Weil

That's why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs. — Roger Hutchinson

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today? — Karl Lagerfeld

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for. — Stella Young

I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.' — Maurice Flanagan

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

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

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family. — Peter Diamandis

We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along. — Terence McKenna

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

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore. — George Ayittey

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style. — Kristoffer Rygg

I was, in the 1960s, in a marriage. To use the word 'bad' would be perhaps the understatement of the year. It was dreadful. — Sherwin B. Nuland

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s. — Kelly Wearstler

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler

The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work. — Henry Spencer

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again. — Madison Smartt Bell

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed. — Sue Townsend

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s. — Jean Reno

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. — Christopher Hitchens

I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women. — Jerry Della Femina

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all. — Marie Helvin

The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas. — Tim Kurkjian

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard. — Noam Chomsky

I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s. — Christophe Honore

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats. — Philip Treacy

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. — James Grant

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. — Hal Stratton

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. — Abbie Hoffman

Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins. — Rebecca Traister

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care. — Phil Bredesen

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea. — John O'Sullivan

At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized. — Lucinda Williams

I am a long-time hide-behind-the-sofa-in-the-early-Doctor Who-in-the-1960s fan. — Kenneth Branagh

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

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

When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. — Robert Vaughn

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment. — Edmund Phelps

I think the 1960s were really about consciousness, a unique moment when I became we. — Judith Nies

In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter. — Brian Eno

It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation. — David Suchet

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

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression. — Sally Kirkland

no smallpox vaccinations have been given worldwide since 1980, and in some countries like the USA, since the 1960s. — Michael B.A. Oldstone

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer
4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s. — Sheldon Whitehouse

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film. — Warren Bennis

Women were invented ages ago, before the 1960s, because God realised very quickly that Adam needed an audience for his jokes. — Bridget Christie

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new. — Harold E. Varmus

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

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren

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

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. — Andy Warhol

I am a big fan of music and clothing style of the 1960s. Whether in England or the United States, I like everything from that time. — Robert Pattinson

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. — Mike McCurry

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. — Marvin Ammori

As the 1960s began, a new breed of Hollywood leading lady was emerging. She was elegant, international, and wonderfully comedic. — Maureen O'Hara

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s. — Danny Brown

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

In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection. — Oscar Isaac

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful. — Daryl Hall

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

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

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. — Douglass North

Our population has doubled since the 1960s while wild animal populations have dropped by a third. — Sue Donaldson

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. — Camille Paglia

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism. — Joan Halifax

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you. — Howard Schultz

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

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him. — David Boies

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them. — Bill Dedman

Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars. — Camille Paglia

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

[In the 1960s] ... you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit. — Betsey Johnson

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s. — Stanley Bing