My Generation Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

  Alton Brown

  Children, Pbs, Cooking

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• The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

  Lewis Black

  Generations, Want, Couches

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• My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

  Lewis Black

  Drama, School, Yale

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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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  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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• A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

  Paul Ryan

  Mom, Mother, Kids

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, People, Reform

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• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  Gary Ross

  Scary, Generations, Eras

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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• Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

  John C. Reilly

  Trying, Generations, Hey

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

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• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  Camille Paglia

  Baby, Book, Political

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• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  Camille Paglia

  Generations, Excess, Liberalism

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• My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

  Edward Norton

  Generations, Midlife, Crisis

  "'Fight Club': It 'Just sort of clicked'" by Michael Sragow, www.cnn.com. October 19, 1999.

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• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Religious, Marijuana, Choices

  Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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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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• 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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