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'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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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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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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• 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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• I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

  Christina Ricci

  Generations, Peter, Gross

  "Christina Ricci: The Most Original Young Actress in Hollywood". Interview with Stephen Rebello, movieline.com. November 1, 1999.

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• My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Generations, Intimacy, Relentless

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• Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Heart, Differences, Excellent Work

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

  Ani DiFranco

  Work, Mind, Bail

  Song: Garden Of Simple, Album: Revelling / Reckoning, 2001

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• Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

  Robert Cray

  Jobs, Love Life, Trying

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• I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.

  Jorja Fox

  Believe, People, Missing

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• Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

  Eric Fischl

  Education, Artist, Generations

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• I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

  Tim Henman

  Passion, Games, Guy

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• Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Beautiful, Real, Nice

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Desire

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I like a lot of artists but I think the one that touched me the most was probably Tupac, coming up. Cause that was my generation, so Tupac was mine.

  French Montana

  Thinking, Artist, Causes

  "French Montana talks about touring with Drake, working with Diddy & Rick Ross". Interview with Marian Tuin, thefeaturestory.com. May 16, 2012.

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• I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

  Jack Kirby

  Europe, Generations

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all, but then they will say, "Well, I wish he would sovereignly take away my lust issue." There's just not a lot of fortitude, not a lot of fight in them.

  Matt Chandler

  Spiritual, Strong, Fighting

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the shark I think it's awesome. You know it's fake, but with my generation that was part of the charm.

  Larry Fessenden

  Fun, Old School, Thinking

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there was disagreement, sometimes very strong disagreement. But they were all like arguments within a family. I am not sure if the generation which doesn't have these experiences has the same view of things.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Europe, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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