My Generation Quotes - Page 5

• My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.

  Joe Dante

  Fun, Home, Thinking

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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• My generation is under-entertained.

  Dave Chappelle

  Generations

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• My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

  Georgie Fame

  War, Rocks, Years

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• The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

  Daryl Hall

  Differences, People, Generations

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• War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

  Gustav Heinemann

  War, School, Men

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• If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

  Vanilla Ice

  Running, Boys, Generations

  "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Motivation, Writing, Black Youth

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.

  Steven Johnson

  Sports, Dragons, Games

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.8, Penguin

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• We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.

  Ishmael Reed

  Music, Eye, Light

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Home, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• When I started making music, we'd lost a lot of our great people. Rock was moving in a direction I didn't like. Rock was my generation's revolutionary, sexual, poetic, and political voice, but it had become corporatized. It was going into stadiums. It was so far removed from its basic roots.

  Patti Smith

  Moving, Rocks, Voice

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Father, Mistake

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

  Jana Novotna

  Years, Tennis, Generations

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• My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

  Diane Paulus

  America, Directors, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

  Keke Palmer

  Trying, Example, Generations

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

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• The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

  Thomas Leonard

  Unique, Discovery, Generations

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• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

  James Caan

  Lying, Generations, Done

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• I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

  John Mayer

  Goal, Guy, Promise

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• My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Crazy, Tragedy, Generations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women to have their own TV shows. What happened, though, was that the generation after feminism, which is my generation, misunderstood what feminism was saying.

  Debora Spar

  Tv Shows, Ivy, League

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Young Generation

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Generations, Unions, Forging

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie from 'Grey Gardens' and, of course, like all my generation, I'm influenced by Kate Moss.

  Lou Doillon

  Fashion, Garden, Two

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• My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Vision, Generations

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• My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

  Erica Jong

  Female Writers, Generations, Fiction

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