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

• If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the problems that are plaguing our schools and our youth would disappear.

  

  Kevin Frazier
  • People
  • Money

• I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Moving

• Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • War
  • Desire

• I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.'

  

  Marc Guggenheim

• You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.

  

  Jacob Latimore

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

  

  Dennis Christopher
  • Hippie