My Generation Quotes - Page 12

• Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

  John Knowles

  People, Sick, Generations

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• Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

  Cillian Murphy

  School, Catholic, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Mistake, Would Be

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.

  Stephen Dorff

  Years, Guy, Adults

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, House, Generations

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

  Takashi Miike

  Childhood, Generations, Our Children

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Leader, Trying, Adults

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund -- the nation's largest lobbying group for young people -- talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

  Beck

  Generations, World, Cliche

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• My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

  Russell Hoban

  Generations

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

  Joe Biden

  Generations

  "US graduation season 2013: the best commencement speeches" Ruth Spencer and Kayla Epstein, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

  Nico Muhly

  Thinking, Generations, Way

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I grew up in the 1970s and I am a product of women's liberation. My generation is really the first one to fully benefit from the movement. It's the same for homosexuals. We are the first generation to really accept that someone is gay. I work with people who are gay and of course I don't think about it. I don't care if someone lives with a man. Twenty years ago it was an issue. Now it's not.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Gay, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Kids, Rocks

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• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Views

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Golf, Government, Generations

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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, Generations, Video

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• My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

  Gjon Mili

  Photography, Creating, Generations

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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, Generations, Photograph

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• That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.

  Chuck Pierce

  Army, Enemy, Generations

  "Chuck Pierce: Incredible Prophecy: 'Hear the Clock Ticking! You Have Been Catapulted Into the Three Years Ahead!'". www.elijahlist.com. September 27, 2013.

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• My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

  Ishmael Reed

  Black, Males, Generations

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

  Annie Lennox

  Understanding, Viruses, Hiv

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all of the economists of my generation - Nicky Kaldor , Thomas Balogh, L. K. Jah, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the list could be indefinitely extended. The urge to participate (and correct Hayek) was ruthlessly competitive.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Generations, Lists, Hayek

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• Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Two, Interesting

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• The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

  Karan Bajaj

  Interesting, Generations, Firsts

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My love of classical hit pretty early. I was 13 when it occurred, and that was really the only music I listened to for many, many years. I went to a conservatory, but I always knew I would be in the pop world, because A) it was more fun and B) you didn't have to practice as much and you could go out more. But I immediately saw this opportunity to inject my material with these sounds that most members of my generation really didn't know about, so it was a great way to differentiate myself from the pack.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Fun, Opportunity, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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