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We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.
I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.
I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.
I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian.
Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.
In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.
I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.
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.
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.
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.
In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.
Boutique hotels are great, but they get too cute. Some hotels have shoe polish. It's like, come on, this isn't 1960. No one's polishing their shoes.
Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.
I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.
I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.
In 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and diabetes had been diagnosed in 1 percent. Today, the percentage of obese Americans has almost tripled; the percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased sevenfold.
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which made it possible to express things directly, without having to rely on the written word, which was manipulated by men.
The politicized version of Shia Islam that we see in the Islamic Republic post-1979 clearly is very conservative, but, there are other things one could say about Ayatollah Khomeini's concept of a Shia state because that in itself is a blasphemy as far as most Shia clerics are concerned. There's a theory that he developed in the early 1960s in the town of Najaf talking about - well not liberalism, necessarily, but flexibility though.
