Seventies Quotes

"The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it."

One of my film heroes is Peter Weir, who made Fearless (1993) but also made Green Card (1990). Ang Lee makes a western, he makes a Seventies psycho movie, a costume drama and a monster movie. I wanted to be like that. I finished this in October and I haven`t worked since, because my wife (the actress Jennifer Connelly) had just had the baby and I wanted to be with them. But I`ve just taken on a film called Firewall (2006), which is a thriller with Harrison Ford. I`m doing it because I`ve never done a thriller before and I just get ... I just get bored if I don`t do different things.

(Marley recognizes the similarities between hip-hop and the reggae music his father helped put on the international map. They are linked by point of origin -- after all, hip-hop formed when Kool Herc fled Jamaica`s mid-Seventies political unrest and headed for the Bronx -- and in terms of their impact.) I love hip-hop music, ... It`s rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class -- they both come from the bottom of society.

I can`t even remember when the Seventies was.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

I have begun to think that the seventies are the very worst years since the history of life began on earth...

The only time I`ve seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.