1950s Quotes
A decade people still look back on fondly.
1950s quotes cover fashion, film, and motorsport memories, often tied to family history and early Acting Career beginnings. Several speakers recall the decade through a parent's or company's story.
We have been around in the States in the ski wear market since the 1950s, but now we feel we can compete in the sportswear field.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
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If I had come out during my acting career in the 1950s, I would not have had a career.
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
Acting Quotes
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
Pawn shops have been around for thousands of years - they were the number one form of consumer credit up until the 1950s, but we were vilified by Hollywood. We were easy people to vilify.
Whether it was in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, the 1950s under Churchill and Macmillan or in the early days of the Cameron administration, when our party has spoken for the people we have won.
Acting Career Quotes
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
Africa Quotes
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
'Sunset Boulevard' by Billy Wilder, it's one of my favorite films. I love all the movies from the 1950s.
African Americans Quotes
In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.
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Others focus on style, noting how 1950s fashion still shapes ideas of glamour today. Together these quotes capture a decade remembered as both ambitious and distinctive.
