1975

Explore 39 quotes from the year 1975

Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

Quoted in Playboy Magazine

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Topic

Success and failure Success Failure

Speaker

Joseph Heller

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

Adrienne Rich

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Topic

Difficult truths

Speaker

Adrienne Rich

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Rich, Adrienne. "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying." Women's Writing Workshop. June 1975, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA.

All political power is primarily an illusion... Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud, that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

Jimmy Breslin

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Topic

Political power Politics

Author

Jimmy Breslin

Source

How the Good Guys Won

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Breslin, Jimmy. How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer. Viking Press, 1975, ch. 2.

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me.

Queen

Bohemian Rhapsody

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Topic

Nihilism

Speaker

Queen

Source

Bohemian Rhapsody A Night at the Opera

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mercury, Freddie. "Bohemian Rhapsody." Performed by Queen. A Night at the Opera. EMI Records, 1975.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Topic

Artists Art market

Author

Andy Warhol

Source

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 10.

It's just a flesh wound.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Topic

Delusion

Speaker

The Black Knight

Actor

John Cleese

Source

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Understatement

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Python (Monty) Pictures/Michael White Productions/National Film Trustee Company, 1975.

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television—you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Topic

Movies

Author

Andy Warhol

Source

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt

The Life of the Mind

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Topic

Evil Unintended consequences

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

The Life of the Mind

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arendt, Hannah. The Life of the Mind. Vol. 1. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, ch. 18.

I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Imogen Cunningham

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Topic

Success Legacy

Speaker

Imogen Cunningham

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cunningham, Imogen. Interviewed by Paul J. Karlstrom and Louise Katzman. 9 June 1975, San Franacisco, CA, USA.

Give yourself over to absolute pleasure. Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh, erotic nightmares beyond any measure, and sensual daydreams to treasure forever. Can't you just see it?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Topic

Hedonism Pleasure

Speaker

Dr. Frank-N-Furter

Actor

Tim Curry

Source

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Medium

Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Jim Sharman, Michael White Productions, 1975.

Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

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Topic

Moral hazard Government spending Economics Government Political theory

Author

Milton Friedman

Source

Open Mind

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Open Mind. Interview with Milton Friedman. Hosted by Richard Heffner. The Open Mind Legacy Project. National Educational Telecommunications Association, PBS, 7 Dec. 1975, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=k2Kg2SvsI8Q

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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Topic

Farming Human flourishing

Author

Masanobu Fukuoka

Source

The One-Straw Revolution

Language

Japanese

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fukuoka, Masanobu. 自然農法 わら一本の革命 [One-Straw Revolution]. Hakujusha, 1975.

And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Topic

The human condition

Speaker

The Criminologist

Actor

Charles Gray

Source

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Medium

Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Jim Sharman, Michael White Productions, 1975.

Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know, the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', and the ocean turns red.

Jaws

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Topic

Shark attacks Sharks

Speaker

Quint

Actor

Robert Shaw

Source

Jaws

Medium

Film

Genre

Thriller (film) Thriller

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jaws. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Zanuck/Brown Company/Universal Pictures, 1975.

In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

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Topic

Gender relations Patriarchy Oppression of women Women's attractiveness

Author

Laura Mulvey

Source

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

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Topic

Man and animals

Author

Edward Hoagland

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hoagland, Edward. "The Tug of Life at the End of the Leash." Harpers Magazine, Feb. 1975.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

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Topic

Vietnam War Media

Author

Marshall McLuhan

Source

Montreal Gazette

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

McLuhan, Marshall. Montreal Gazette. 16 May 1975.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish

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Topic

Body and soul The soul

Author

Michel Foucault

Source

Discipline and Punish

Genre

Historical literature Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

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Topic

Good intentions Public policy Politics

Speaker

Milton Friedman

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Friedman, Milton. "Living Within Our Means." Interviewed by Richard D. Heffner. The Open Mind, WPIX, Channel 11, 7 Dec. 1975.