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


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It's a very diverse community. Rednecks and hippies, they all come together here.
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And what do they want!?
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Old hippies never die, they just surrender to society.
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Hippies are like jeans. They never die; they just fade.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
TED NUGENT
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
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Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed arou...
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A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
RONALD REAGAN.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
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Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again...
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The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls! Ha ha ha! I saw a girl yesterda...
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You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problem...
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Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks alon...
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When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something ...
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The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final...
ROBERT PIRSIG
My parents were hippies.
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Hippies are so phoney and fake.
GEORGE HARRISON
Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON
I've always despised the hippies.
JOHN LYDON
Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
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My family, my parents are hippies.
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My parents are definitely reformed hippies.
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The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the W...
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I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!
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I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.
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Rock on, you retread hippies. Rock on!
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I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
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I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!
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I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.
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My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.
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A lot of the public thinks of us as dope-smoking, drunk hippies and we're not.
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Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
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He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to "Peaches en Regalia" flows over him, the bugle cal...
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They called themselves flower children and advocated free love, yet all too often what they experien...
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When the hippie era ended and the hangover began, as idealism gives way to disillusionment, the hair...
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Jewish shopkeepers can do what they want, if they want to save electricity, they can do that too.
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They are aggressive and they are all tough and physical. They want to rebound. They want to play def...
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They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
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The hippy movement was a failure. All hippies around now just represent complete apathy. There's...
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We want to get better and more physical each week. They play physical and they've got great players....
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In a way, we are hippies. We are looking for alternatives to the establishment. We're not going to g...
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The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of s...
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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They don't want to be taken out of circulation. They want to unplug from the pressures, yes, but the...
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo ...
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo...
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo f...
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Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo f...
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People can still smoke but they won't get any benefit from it. So, why would they want to?
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They should legalize pot! Do it! DO IT!
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Today's population is different from the previous generation. The past generation would do without. ...
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When you go to fetch water and do not return, they do not inquire about the pot.
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A different kind of family, I guess. Mom went to nursing school after having five kids, and Dad is a...
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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We were doing the Monterey Pop Festival, which I produced with Lou Adler, and the town of Monterey w...
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They can speculate all they want, but they do not know. Nobody knows.
FRED STANDISH
They want me to come back and play and do what I can do, just come and play and try,
STEVE YZERMAN
I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?
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The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
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When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER