My Generation Quotes - Page 4

• The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.

  Liam Gillick

  Years, People, Generations

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Reality, Design

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• There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

  Patton Oswalt

  Happy Life, Media, People

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• I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Song, Gossip, Soul

  "The Rolling Stones: a career in quotes" by Steve Turner, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2013.

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• It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Bed, Vices

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• I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Drama, Hippie

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

  Rihanna

  Epidemics, Long, Hiv

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• With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it

  Molly Antopol

  Book, People, Holocaust

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very young millennials - they are bored by so much so fast and have such fast big brains, that they won't digest lazy uninteresting work in the way my generation might have. This is a great opportunity for those on the fringe to be less on the fringe perhaps.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Thinking, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Children, War, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

  Nelson DeMille

  War, Book, Army

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.

  Jake Epstein

  Wall, Feelings, Green

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• I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, War

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Are you guys football players? Is that what they call football? It's not iron-man football, where you stay on the field for 60 minutes. Everybody! We were iron men. Not a bunch of pussyfoots.

  Chuck Bednarik

  Football, Boys, Player

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

  Camille Paglia

  Generations, Excess, Liberalism

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