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" Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. "

Michael Douglas

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" I grew up on the East Coast and was going to go to an Ivy League School, but at the last minute I decided to be a hippy. It was the protest movements on the war, peace movements were going on at our university. It was a fantastic time. "

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" Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. "

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