Generations Quotes - Page 15

• I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.

  Julianne Hough

  Thinking, Cds, Records

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I had been through so much. Seeing my father's life struggle and so many whole generations lose their potential or possibility in their lives. Just being pushed into this political struggle and the damage done not only to their lives but their relatives.

  Ai Weiwei

  New York, Father, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, House, Pounds

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I believe modern SF needs to at least be aware of the singularity, if only so that it can dismiss it intelligently (or work around it). But I suspect the singularity is like faster-than-light travel for the IT generation. We may hope for it, and the rules don't forbid it, but we don't know how to do it yet (and it may not be possible).

  Charles Stross

  Believe, Light, Needs

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I grew up listening to my grandfather's stories of our musical past. He would often talk about the orchestras that played at concerts and the musicians who played on Sunday evenings on street corners. By the time I grew up in the '80s, all of this was a thing of the past. I lived vicariously through his stories and often wondered what it would have felt like to have been part of his generation.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Sunday, Past, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

  Takashi Miike

  Childhood, Our Children, My Generation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

  Tucker Carlson

  Inspiration, Icons, Bob

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Moving, Helping Others, People

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• Every generation seems to have its members who think the world has gone to hell and a hand basket and that they need to explain a challenging world to their kids.

  Steven Petrow

  Kids, Thinking, Hands

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have no idea what the next ten years, much less the next fifty years, will demand of the coming generation. What we do know is that unless we have a people prepared and eager to meet those crises creatively and compassionately, there is not much hope for this poor old planet of ours.

  Katherine Paterson

  Years, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Discussion, No Point

  Source: feathertale.com

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• In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Leader, Trying, Adults

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund -- the nation's largest lobbying group for young people -- talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• I don't accept that the new generation is looking for anything different than what we've always been looking for. Depending on the moment, they want bangers that make them crack their neck, they want tracks that put them in a zone where they can sit back and chill.

  Rakim

  Track, Want, Necks

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

  Walter Mosley

  People, Important, World

  Big Think Interview with Andrew Dermont, bigthink.com. November 10, 2010.

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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Yoko Ono". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2010.

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• There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Ideas, Guy, Shifting

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Believe, Culture

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Tired, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Reading, Humor

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• A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.

  Madeline Miller

  Voice, Different, Stories

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Party, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Mean, Years, Special

  Source: londoncalling.com

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