Top Sixties Quotes
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
John Lennon
That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.
John Schlesinger
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
Michael Winner
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia 
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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
Ellen Willis
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan
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Well, I actually grew up in the sixties. I feel very lucky, actually, that that was my slice of time that I was dealt. Let's remember that the real motivation in the sixties, and even in the fifties, was the Cold War.
Ann Druyan
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Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.
Robert C. Solomon
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Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
Marc Davis
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W. Somerset MaughamDave BarryArnold SchwarzeneggerBob DylanHenry A. KissingerJohn LennonP. J. O'RourkeAudre LordeCamille PagliaAnthony HoldenBarney FrankJerry GarciaMarc MaronAugusten BurroughsRonnie Spector
David Foster WallaceSonny RollinsKlaus SchulzePaul KantnerJon FishmanMary A. WardCurt FloodGail SheehyRobert C. SolomonMarc DavisJohn PerkinsJohn SchlesingerBill LeeAnn DruyanJulie Burchill
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