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Lauren Oliver Author
Hair

"The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird."

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Katie Couric Journalist
Hair

"I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!"

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
Hair

"Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Hair

"My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
Hair

"It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired."

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Jim Morrison Musician, Poet
Hair

"In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises."

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Jimi Hendrix Musician, Guitarist
Hair

"To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?"

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Hair

"Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses."

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