Hippie Quotes - Page 11

• They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

  Tom Allen

  Rights, Law, Special

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• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  Bobby Scott

  Rights, Importance, Difficult

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• I just wasn't raised a granola eating, peace love hippie type person. I'm from Michigan and was raised in and around Detroit where it is kind of you get respect and you give respect. That is how I feel.

  Kid Rock

  Giving, Michigan, Detroit

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

  Jane Fonda

  Serious, Bohemian, Earnest

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• Hippies, hippies... they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and play frisbee!

  Trey Parker

  Play, World, Want

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• I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

  Jello Biafra

  Sports, Country, Fighting

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro '50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

  Ariana Grande

  Girly, Flirty, Style

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• I'd rather be more of the hippie country chick - as in, instead of pointing a finger, just maybe saying, 'We're all screw-ups. We're all in this kind of together. We're all just figuring this out.'

  Kacey Musgraves

  Country, Together, Screw Ups

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• Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

  Ronald Steel

  Children, Burning, Littles

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• To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

  Unpopular Essays (1950) "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Generations, Movement, Rebellion

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  People, Ironic, Warfare

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

  Erin Wasson

  Heart, People, Tough

  Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

  Douglas Adams

  Self, Lunch, Crooks

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.51, Del Rey

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• We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

  Joni Mitchell

  Peace, Garden, Golden

  "Woodstock" (song) (1969)

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• Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Athletic, Stuff

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway, dope-fiend San Francisco hippie; or all the people she would later be: mother, nurse, religious fanatic, prematurely old woman. Vivienne was a human onion, and when I came home at twenty eight years old on the day the monster died, I was afraid that the Baptist freak she had peeled down to was her true, acrid, tear-inducing core.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Feelings, Action, Knows

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.

  Sarah Dessen

  Scolded

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• I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

  Janis Joplin

  Tired, I'm Tired

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• [Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym

  Jandy Nelson

  Girl, Mom, Football

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• Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

  Rick Riordan

  Zeus, Angry

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• If the mountains fell in the sea, Let it be, it ain't me. Got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you. Now, if 6 turned up to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind. If all the hippies cut off their hair, I don't care, I don't care. Did, 'cos I got my own world to live through And I ain't gonna copy you.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Cutting, Hair, Sea

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

  Mary McCarthy

  Law, Marketing, Benefits

  Mary McCarthy (1968). “Hanoi”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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