Teenager Quotes - Page 8

• Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Obsessive Love, I Realized

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• I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

  Charles de Lint

  Reading, Book, Kids

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• When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Book, Old Testament, Found

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nicotine has been proven addictive harmful to teenagers, threatening normal brain development.

  John B. Larson

  Brain, Development, Normal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  Paul Davies

  Night, Thinking, Sky

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to get there? Eight to ten years in a patrol car? I didn't have that in me. I didn't want to tell people what to do.

  Michael Connelly

  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "Michael Connelly on Writing for Men". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all over the world, people don't have the same rights that we do in the United States.

  Jenna Bush

  Girl, Kids, Rights

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• Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

  Richard Branson

  Moon, Space, One Day

  "CEO Interview: Richard Branson on space travel". Interview with Susan Montoya Bryan, newsok.com. November 23, 2010.

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• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Thinking, Listening, Band

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I failed music when I was a teenager.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Interview with Buzz Aldrin, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.

  Scott Bradfield

  Children, Character, Personality

  "Go Forth (Vol. 15)". Interview with Brandon Hobson, logger.believermag.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Feminist, World, Wanted

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them. This dystopian trend picks up on that little part of your life where everything feels really extreme and it honors that part of your life and says, "Yeah. It is the end of the world. Look at it."

  Veronica Roth

  Silly, Thinking, Honor

  "Interview: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism". "Jacket Copy", latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.

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• When I was a teenager in a band playing, everything was great. I still don't feel any different. I still wake up with the same love and passion as when I did this with the band. Because my life in music has let me live the kind of life that I've loved, and I've been able to share it with others and take care of the people I love.

  Frank Wildhorn

  Passion, People, Care

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2004.

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• If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

  Teresa Bloomingdale

  Running, Children, Doors

  Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books

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• Teenagers are like cats - they have important business that doesn't involve mere humans.

  Julie Smith

  Cat, Important, Adolescence

  Julie Smith (1997). “The Kindness of Strangers”, Fawcett

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• I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

  Ruth Glick

  Character, Fiction, Stories

  "'Dark Powers' Author Rebecca York". Interview with Joyce Lamb, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 21, 2012.

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• As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.

  Clive Owen

  Crazy, Inspiration, School

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• At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Dying, Stage

  "New Again: Claire Danes". Interview with Emily McDermott and Mark Marvel, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think what we have seen in terms of gay teenagers committing suicide because of bullying is anguishing. I think young people, if they are feeling like they are confused, need to know that there are people to talk to and that there are places they can go and not feel alone. But I feel that they have just as many rights as I do to not be bullied.

  Kevin Spacey

  Suicide, Bullying, Confused

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• I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

  Hilarie Burton

  Reality, Young, Shows

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• The last time I cried? My godchildren went to see Taylor Swift in concert and got to meet her. They literally ran toward her and hugged her, and it was amazing. I got big bonus points for it. I'll remind them when they're teenagers.

  Michelle Dockery

  Bonus, Lasts, Bigs

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• I very rarely listen to music in my car - a lot of people make fun of me for it. But sometimes I listen to music on YouTube. I'm like a teenager.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fun, People, Car

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• My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

  Donnie Yen

  Baseball, Football, Teaching

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• Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

  Johnny Marr

  Interesting, Joining, Used

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