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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Thoughts Confused Like Early

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don't pay attention to the negative.

Positive Parents Negative Down

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.

Lawyer Dad College Know

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Girl First Guess Be The First

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Myself Peace Truth Friends

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

History Looking Back Looking Back

There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Love Picture Sometimes Nothing

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Funny Myself Me People

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.

Eyes You Look Way

I would never and did not ever characterize myself as a hippie.

Myself Never Ever Did

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The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Jean-Luc Godard

Music People Airplane Something

I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so I was pretty funky. The teachers didn't give me a hard time, though, even though I was totally way out of line in terms of my dress code.

Day Me Time Dress

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Alanis Morissette

Life Best School Friends

We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.

Music Hangover Out Mellow

I've always been like a black hippie.

Black Always Like Been

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

People Newspaper Nervous Vietnam

I heard opera all day long. From the time I was 9 years old, I was imitating the singers; later I studied opera. But we also got Western television and radio, from the Americans in West Berlin. When I was 11 years old, I turned into a hippie and gave flowers to policemen. And when I was 21 and left Berlin for London, I became a punk.

Day Time Long Flowers

My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.

Car Long Hair Way

The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.

Time World Better Place

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Experience People Growth Child

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Change Me You People

My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

Mother Always More Flawless

I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were something I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers. Something that would be me.

Justin Timberlake

Me Style Think Sneakers

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

Me Man Environmental You

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Flower Child Still Am

Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Trust Motto Never My Motto

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