My Generation Quotes - Page 10

• Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

  Anita Baker

  Hero, Issues, Generations

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• I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

  Anita Baker

  Voice, Political, Generations

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• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Land, Generations

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Jobs, Player

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• One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

  Paul Keating

  Ocean, Forever, Atmosphere

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• From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.

  A. E. Hotchner

  School, Firsts, Sun

  A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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• I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Generations, Actors, Theater

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• I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.

  David Sanborn

  Real, Kids, Player

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• Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

  Deborah Kass

  Generations, Way, Language

  "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

  Zachary Knighton

  Writing, Names, Guy

  "Happy Endings' Zachary Knighton talks comedy and T-shirts". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

  Aloe Blacc

  People, Evil, Tolerance

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• For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads.

  Willow Bay

  Jobs, Children, Home

  "The Daily Balancing Act" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2007.

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• I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.

  Hannah

  Thinking, Voice, Generations

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• I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

  Timbaland

  Generations, Looks, Wayne

  "Timberland says he's 'done with hip-hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.

  Justin Bieber

  People, Generations, Cobain

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• For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

  Luther Allison

  Thinking, Guy, Generations

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• In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Mother, Home, Generations

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• My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Grace, Generations, Virtue

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3229, e-artnow

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• I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

  Mark Satin

  War, Exercise, Thinking

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• Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.

  Atul Gawande

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our Generation

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• When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation — would jump at the chance to teach in urban and rural communities, their concerns, too, went unheard. My very greatest asset was that I simply did not understand what was impossible.

  Wendy Kopp

  School, Community, Generations

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• All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

  A. A. Gill

  Philosophy, War, Men

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• Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

  Phillip Noyce

  Australia, Forever, Generations

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