My Generation Quotes - Page 2

• I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

  Robert Smith

  Technology, Ideas, People

  "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I don't worry about my epitaph' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Susan Compo, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2012.

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• My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

  Stevie Nicks

  Husband, Feminism, Generations

  "Stevie Nicks, the Fairy Godmother of Rock". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.

  Wynton Marsalis

  New York, Philosophical, Talking

  "Third Screen". Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Eye, Ideas, Democracy

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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 was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

  Bette Davis

  Generations, Brando

  "The Lonely Life: An Autobiography".

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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 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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• When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

  John Cleese

  Teenage, Writing, Kids

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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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

  Diane Lane

  Cheating, Would Be, Generations

  "Diane Lane on 'Untraceable': The RT Interview". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 25, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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