A Quote by Hannah Arendt

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Hannah Arendt

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Disgusting Fifties Know

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Hannah Arendt
German - Historian
October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks and a pair of comics named Bob and Ray.

Orson Bean

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties.

Kim Cattrall

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

Diane di Prima

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Pete Seeger

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

Martin Freeman

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

Rosamund Pike

I'm really a very fifties housewife.

Eva Longoria

The nineteen fifties was a time of tumultuous change.

Orson Bean

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

AB de Villiers

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.

Erica Jong

I'd love to be a NASCAR driver because they're, like, in their forties and fifties.

Valee

When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.

Anne Waldman

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.