Generations Quotes - Page 24

• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• I come from a different generation from my Dad.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Different, My Dad

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• I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Fun, Responsibility

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• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Reality, Design

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• Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Believe, Fighting, Asking

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• Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Lying, People, Weakness

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• We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Integrity, Body

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "Dario Argento, Master of Horror, Unleashes Dracula 3-D Trailer" by Xaque Gruber, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Ethically, what one generation tolerates the next may treat as normal.

  Mal Fletcher

  May, Next, Normal

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• I can't think of any more important value to instill in our children than the desire to help others. I feel strongly about setting an example for them. Real problems can be solved by the next generation if we instill in them the right values.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Real, Thinking

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• Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

  Michel Patini

  Player, Messi, This Generation

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• I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

  William Graham Sumner

  Country, War, Years

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• Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Judging, Next

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• If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

  Thomas Paine

  Doe, Succeed, Slave

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.136

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• Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

  Herbert Simon

  Thinking, Design Process, Alternatives

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• The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

  Martin Durkin

  Drug, Criminals, Machines

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• We're looking at a huge gap between what an entire generation thinks is going to happen during its retirement years and the funds that are there - or, more accurately, are not there - to make good on all those promises.

  John C. Goodman

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• [Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Kings, Space, May

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.440

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• The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ideas, Financial, Happens

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2013

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• The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Saving, Source, Goods

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.84, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.

  Sherry Lansing

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

  Vinod Khosla

  Optimistic, Technology, Electric Power

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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