Hippie quotes
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"His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness."
"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."
"Never go with a hippie to a second location."
"Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing"
"Work like you don't need the money."
"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages."
"Drinking in a honky tonk, just kicking hippies asses and raising hell."
"I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett."
"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."
"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep."
"Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves."
"I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else."
"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."
"There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high"
"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."
"We're not going to baby sit a civil war."
"You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems."
"I used to get bummed out when it rained; then I realized that it's God's way of washing off hippies."
