My Generation Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

  Dave Grohl

  Perfection, People, Safe

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on His 'Sound City' Doc and Taking Risks in Music". Interview with Katie Van Syckle, www.rollingstone.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

  Anthony Braxton

  Men, Interesting, African American

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• Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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• When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Crazy, Risk

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• Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  Colin Powell

  Senior, War, Government

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

  G. H. Hardy

  Inspiration, Science, Firsts

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• So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

  Jewel

  Glowing, Parent, Generations

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• I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Years, Events

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Children

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  "Happy 83rd Birthday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2016.

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• The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Men, Battle, Library

  "Men Explain Things to Me — Facts Didn’t Get in the Way" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

  Gore Vidal

  Italian, Paris, Novelists

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

  Michael Hastings

  Want, Generations, Greatest Generation

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• The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

  Julian Assange

  Memories, War, Ignorance

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• I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Generations, Hopelessness

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• So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

  Madeleine Albright

  Generations, Littles, Whole

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• I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

  William Styron

  Blessed, Thinking, Games

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• I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Generations, Music Is

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• Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Father, Dark, White

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• I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

  Joni Mitchell

  Kids, Kissing, Thinking

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

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• More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

  Andy Serkis

  Kids, Space, Playing Roles

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• My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Parent, Political, Generations

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• I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

  Liam Neeson

  Father, Men, Thinking

  "Liam Neeson Talks Alpha Males and ‘The Grey’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 26, 2012.

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