Sixty Quotes
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At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
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I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.
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There are days when I definitely look in the mirror and go, "All right, I need to find a cream." I can't foresee myself ever going under the knife, but then again, I'm only in my mid-thirties. Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties.
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
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The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.
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Sixty sluts, all of them dying from asphyxia after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippy cup.
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Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
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Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.
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Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.
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None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.
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Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
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In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.
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After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
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I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.
