#sixties

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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.


John Major


#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.


Paul Merton


#after #am #chronological #dvds #i

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.


Miuccia Prada


#done #fashion #feminist #i #imagine

There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.


Sonny Rollins


#creating #encompasses #golden #golden age #great

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


#crow #discover #generation #going #nest

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.


Joyce Maynard


#anything #besides #child #children #divorce

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.


Arnold Schwarzenegger


#any #applies #back #destined #great

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.


Camille Paglia


#destroyed #excesses #generation #great #ideals

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.


Tori Amos


#carolina #carolinas #chains #christmas #down

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


#cold #cold war #dealt #even #feel