Dennis Christopher Quotes

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

Dennis Christopher

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• When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Young

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

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

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

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Trust
  • Never
  • Hippie

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Pretty
  • Change
  • Curious

• Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Like
  • Greedy

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Influence

• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Small
  • Attention
  • California

• I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Baby
  • Same
  • Building

• ..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Moments

• My dad's a hero in a lot of ways. He was a 1960s and 1970s hippie and a member of the protest crowd.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Dad
  • Hero
  • Hippie

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

  

  Donna Karan
  • Flower
  • Hippie

• I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

  

  Donald Tusk
  • Angry

• My dad has seen and done a lot. He comes from the hippie era where music and living life to the fullest is more important than stability and playing by the rules.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Long
  • Military

• I was a total floral hippie as a child so when I finally could make my own choices, I've been living in different black suit jackets and been really drawn to masculine clothes.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Different
  • Black
  • Choices

• I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline.

  

  Peter Doig
  • Painting

• One time we stayed at a B&B, and there were a couple of hippies who had this nice little area and they let us sleep in their beds that they had in the back.Then the woman suggested we go out and lie on some cushions and look up at the stars and look for UFOs and she said, "You know, I do this all the time," and I was like, "Okay..." So there we are, lying there next to this amazing loch, and we're looking up in the stars and I don't really know what I was expecting, but to see some sort of metallic object.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Nice
  • Sleep
  • Couple

• Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

  

  Kaija Saariaho
  • Power

• Just as the music industry couldn't combat the financial impact of digital piracy, major corporations will have to rethink how to maintain margins when many of their most profitable items can be easily manufactured at home.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Music
  • Home
  • Financial

• My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy - save one, and I thank you for that, too.

  

  Peter S. Beagle
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Hippie