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A hippie was sort of the unwashed, unkempt kid. A freak was someone who put a lot of care and intention into their appearance, wanting to stand out instead of blend in. I was a combination flower child-freak, because the former was all about love and sharing and adoring each other and having flowers in your hair, literally, and lace and feathers and all that. I never considered myself a hippie. She`d be wearing one of those Indian madras-type skirts with her hair split down the middle, no makeup, sandals, braless - of course, we were all braless. I would have on an old vintage lace tablecloth with ribbons woven through it, feathers in my hair, loads of makeup, sequins stuck all over my face, and spike heels."

- Pamela Des Barres

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

- Paul Simon

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.

- Jesse Jackson

(But Mackie`s work paid off. His spectacular creations -- including that unforgettable, revealing Oscar dress -- are woven into Cher`s image.) She had such an unbelievable body, ... She could wear anything. She was like a big Barbie doll.

- Bob Mackie

The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.

- Adam Schiff

Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather`s farm; the branches woven in grandmother`s basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.

- Patrick Dougherty

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

- Ralph Ellison

We are extremely pleased to have this second opportunity for performance, ... Hopefully, all who enjoyed the show the first time will return and bring new visitors into this tangled web we have woven!

- Chris Taylor

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

- Alain Corre

You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state.

- Alan R. Hirsch

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

- Alan Reiter

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man`s or woman`s body, is the pattern of all the process of our life.

- Alexander Silbiger

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man`s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

- Alvina Tan

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

- Andrew Klenert

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Andrew Klenert

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

- Pericles
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