Yoko Ono
Artist, Musician, Activist
"The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
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1960s
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John F. Kennedy
Politician
"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier."
Douglass North
Economist
"I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s."
Christophe Honore
Film Director, Screenwriter
"I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s."
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"[Las Vegas in the early 1960] was thrilling, exciting... I would describe it as very Parisian."
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"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."
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"I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960."
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