“ People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas. ”
- Bob Dylan- Copy
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“ You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems. ”
- David Lee Roth- Copy
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“ A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ I became aware of Gamble And Huff, the whole Philadelphia sound and the work Norman Whitfield was doing with The Temptations. It wasn't just party music anymore. It had a message. That's how I got into black music while my friends were becoming hippies. ”
- Arthur Baker- Copy
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“ My parents are both redheads, so they knew I was going to be a redhead. They just thought Bryce Canyon was very strong and it was red. And they thought it was beautiful. So they named me Bryce. And Dallas is where I was conceived. My parents are hippies. ”
- Bryce Dallas Howard- Copy
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“ The sad think about the Sixties was the weak-mindedness of the so-called radicals and the way that they managed to get co-opted. I think one of the things that helped that happen was LSD. It's the only chemical known to mankind that will covert a hippy to a yuppie. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal. It just says something is bad. Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy… ”
- Robert Pirsig- Copy
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