My Generation Quotes - Page 8

• For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

  Dave Grohl

  Perfection, People, Safe

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on His 'Sound City' Doc and Taking Risks in Music". Interview with Katie Van Syckle, www.rollingstone.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

  Anthony Braxton

  Men, Interesting, African American

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• Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural - as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Mean, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Children

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Years, Events

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• So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

  Jewel

  Glowing, Parent, Generations

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• I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

  Elena Kagan

  Gratitude, Kindness, Inspiration

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee at the USSC Justice Confirmation Hearings, delivered 28 June 2010

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• [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

  G. H. Hardy

  Inspiration, Science, Firsts

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• Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.

  Colin Powell

  Senior, War, Government

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

  Julius Nyerere

  Determination, Effectiveness, Decisions We Make

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• When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Crazy, Risk

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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• Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There is only one psychological assertion that I would insist upon. That is: the SELF takes precedence.

  Stanley Elkin

  Religious, Philosophy, Self

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• I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me.

  Justin Bieber

  People, Generations, Cobain

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• I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

  Timbaland

  Generations, Looks, Wayne

  "Timberland says he's 'done with hip-hop'" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.

  Hannah

  Thinking, Voice, Generations

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• I think that the best of my generation...have reversed the customary rules of the game and have grown more radical as they have gotten older - a disconcerting but healthy sign. To be sure, there are many youngish old fogies around and even the most illustrious of these, William Buckley, is blessed by a puzzling, recondite but undeniable charm, almost as if beneath that patrician exterior an egalitarian was signaling to get out.

  William Styron

  Blessed, Thinking, Games

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• So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

  Madeleine Albright

  Generations, Littles, Whole

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• I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Generations, Hopelessness

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• The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

  Julian Assange

  Memories, War, Ignorance

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• I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

  Michael Hastings

  Want, Generations, Greatest Generation

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• I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

  Liam Neeson

  Father, Men, Thinking

  "Liam Neeson Talks Alpha Males and ‘The Grey’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. January 26, 2012.

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• My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

  Erica Jong

  Confused, Princess, Role Models

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• The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Teacher, Children, Struggle

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