Generations Quotes - Page 33

• I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Bigs, Strategic

  "I Did It My Way". Newsweek Interview, www.newsweek.com. February 25, 2007.

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• The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

  Bill Maher

  Machines, Rage, Authority

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.114, Rodale

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• My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.

  Bill Maher

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

  "Lite Night with Bill Maher". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1998.

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• Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant.

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Challenges, Get Better

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

  Mort Sahl

  People, Waiting, Watches

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• I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

  Desi Arnaz

  Males, My Generation

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sex, Thinking, World

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• If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

  Erykah Badu

  Believe, Want, Language

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also get the chance to play a fantastic, complex, interesting, emotionally passionate, young lead role.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Play, Interesting, This Generation

  Source: collider.com

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• Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sweet, Teenage, Animal

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the 'Car-Crashians'". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Children, Thinking

  "Finding Truth: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

  Al Kooper

  Mean, People, Doubt

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• Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?

  Greg Behrendt

  Real, Gay, Weekend

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• I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, Comedian, Next

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• I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Hbo, Rocks

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• I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

  CC Sabathia

  Games, Video, Nintendo

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• I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

  Dana Gould

  Kids, Kung Fu

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• I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.

  Paul Smoker

  New York, Who I Am, Race

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• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  Neri Oxman

  Thinking, Engineering, Design Process

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• Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.

  Thomas Ruff

  Reality, Photograph, Depiction

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• What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Heart, Soul, Church

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• You aren't going to save the world on your own. But you might inspire a generation of kids to save it for all of us. You would be amazed at what inspired children can do.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Kids, Inspire

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• The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

  David Shrigley

  Book, Eye, Museums

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• All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.

  Mikhail Bakhtin

  Party, Age, Groups

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• [W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

  Edward Kennedy

  Fine

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