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Quotes About 1959

The last time I saw Marilyn was in late 1959, when I appeared in Let's Make Love at Fox. The wide-eyed Marilyn I had first known was gone. This Marilyn was more beautiful than ever.
~ Milton Berle
Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.
~ Roger Zelazny
I started doing sculpture in 1959. I had no commissions then. They were painted, similar in style to the paintings... At a certain point, I decided I didn't want an edge between two colors, I wanted color differences in literal space.
~ Ellsworth Kelly
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.
~ Sloane Crosley
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. --from Poem For A Birthday - The Stones, written 1959
~ Sylvia Plath
The great bronze gate began to crack, The sea broke in at every crack, Pellmell, blueblack. --from The Bull of Bendylaw, written 1959
~ Sylvia Plath
It is 12:20 in New York a Fridaythree days after Bastille Day, yesit is 1959 and I go get a shoeshinebecause I will get off the 4:19 in Easthamptonat 7:15 and then go straight to dinnerand I don't know the people who will feed me
~ Frank O'Hara
In the year 1959 that was a bold theatrical event.
~ Howard Zinn
identified as the premier "consumer advocate." Yet one of Nader's first published writings, in The Nation magazine in 1959, revealed the mind-set behind consumer advocacy when he said, "the consumer must be protected at times from his own indiscretion and vanity."28 Once again, the role of the anointed was to preempt other people's decisions, for their own good.
~ Thomas Sowell
Murdoch was now in great academic and public demand. Despite having been diagnosed as partially deaf with Ménière's disease, an incurable affliction of the inner ear, she gave many lectures and interviews, as well as visiting Yale University in October 1959.
~ Iris Murdoch
When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.
~ Chick Corea
It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try.
~ Joseph Stefano
I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
~ Ellen Stofan
In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.
~ Elias James Corey
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
~ Martin Ryle
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
~ Stephen Lewis
Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.
~ Tom Waits
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
~ Wayne Newton
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
~ Ruth First
We had reached the curb when honest to God a1959 pink Cadillac convertible pulled into view. It eased up infont of us and looked like pulsating puddle of peptol bismol.
~ Craig Johnson
That's right!" said Dr. Nicholas. "So in 1959, Ruth and Elliot decided to make the first Barbie doll. It was eleven and a half inches tall, and it sold for three dollars. It became the most popular doll in the world. Two years later, they came out with Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, and he was named after their son.
~ Dan Gutman
It was 1959, after all. I knew almost nothing of homosexuality, except for the fact that to act on such urges was a criminal act in Ireland that could result in a jail sentence, unless of course you were a priest, in which case it was a perk of the job.
~ John Boyne
1959, Fairchild cofounder Robert Noyce did devise a way to mass-produce integrated circuits by etching thousands of transistors simultaneously onto the surface of a single silicon wafer.
~ Unknown
Overall, out of the nineteen senior public colleges in Texas, seven had desegregated by 1959, and twelve refused to do so. Desegregation
~ Unknown