My Generation Quotes

• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hipster, Night, Mind

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I hope I die before I get old.

  Roger Daltrey

  Rock N Roll, Dies

  "Song: "My Generation" ("My Generation")". 1965.

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Kids, Thinking, Our Generation

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• I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

  Sasha Grey

  Thinking, People, Generations

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Rap, Artist, Thinking

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• My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fun, Generations, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Thinking, Gdp, Generations

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

  P. D. James

  War, Believe, Political

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Oct 30, 2011

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• I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

  Lena Horne

  Kings, Men, Marijuana

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• I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense of being wrong. It was impossible to avoid. Externally, you might make choices that are very public and very open but internally that was a struggle.

  Ira Sachs

  Growing Up, Struggle, Gay

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Women, Memorable

  "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

  Henry Louis Gates

  College, Generations, Educated

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

  Lewis Black

  Generations, Want, Couches

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• Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Running, Grandfather, Generations

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• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

  Julia Child

  Hate, Thinking, Ideas

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

  Julia Child

  Mother, Children, Nice

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

  Billy Corgan

  Generations, Looks, Done

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• Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Cousin, Brother, Nice

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

  Bette Davis

  Generations, Brando

  "The Lonely Life: An Autobiography".

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• Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Rock And Roll, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Generations, Eccentric

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