My Generation Quotes - Page 5

• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.

  Ban Ki-moon

  War, Winter, Humanity

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• I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.

  Sherry Lansing

  Retirement, Past, Two

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• The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

  Bruce Dern

  Differences, Actors, Bigger Than Life

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• I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Country, Kids, Thinking

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• My generation has the opportunity to change the world.

  Zendaya

  Opportunity, Generations, World

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• Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

  Michael Gambon

  Play, Generations, Television

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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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• So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so.

  Cher

  Clueless, Mean, Thinking

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• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  Patrice Leconte

  Anniversary, Marijuana, People

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• Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Remarks at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 14, 1971.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Soul, Generations

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• I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Believe, People, Generations

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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 but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

  Stephen King

  Home, Shopping, Generations

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Generations

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• My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fall, Mean, Thinking

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel”, p.88, Random House

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• In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

  Joss Whedon

  Girl, Fighting, Skills

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

  Dave Barry

  People, Wish, Dollars

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• My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Science, Men, Ideas

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• I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

  Gabriele Munter

  Girl, Drawing, Generations

  Interview with Edouard Roditi in 1958. "Dialogues: Conversations With European Artists at Mid-Century". Book by Edouard Roditi, p. 114, 1990.

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