Teenage Quotes - Page 2

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teaching, School

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• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

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• The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

  Tom Harkin

  Sex, War, Political

  1991 Quoted in the Independent on Sunday, 29 Sep.

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• A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Baby, Two

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• How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Thinking, Teens

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Adultery, Stage

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Birthday, Cutting

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

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Parent, Copying, Rebel

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

  George Foreman

  Life, Kids, Phones

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Book

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• The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Inspirational, Target, Communist

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• Oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
  And ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
  All your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
  Have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
  Oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
  About slaving 50 years away on something that you hate, about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
  Well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me.

  Frank Turner

  Dream, Growing Up, Hate

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• The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Order, Racist, Toddler

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

  Derek Ridgers

  Girl, Eye, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Adults, Want, Misuse

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• Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

  Stephen King

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

  Rupert Brooke

  Beauty, Beautiful

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• I was desperate for something to read that dealt realistically with teenage life, and I thought others might be, too.

  S. E. Hinton

  Might, Teenage Life, Desperate

  "Author Q&A: S.E. Hinton". Interview with Colleen Oakley, www.marieclaire.com. April 30, 2007.

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• Just curious. Does the president of the United States have any advice for other teenage boys in America? Wounded warriors, for example . . .

  James Woods

  Warrior, Boys, America

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2013

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Years, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands - an inept teenage boy - these are the same girls who say they do not climax with a partner. It's the opposite with boys; they say because they can do that themselves, girls should perform oral sex.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Boys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Since I didn't grow up going to school dances, etc., I didn't have the normal . . . I grew up in a very different way so a lot of the childish concerns or teenage concerns weren't my concerns. My concerns were survival.

  Rose McGowan

  Growing Up, School, Survival

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I find that life just gets in the way and it gets so busy and there's so much chaos and stress that can come along with raising two teenage girls in Los Angeles and being married and working and, you know, everything that goes along with it. It's how do you find those calm moments, because everybody has this in their life.

  Lisa Rinna

  Girl, Stress, Two

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• Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that's not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Girl, Sassy, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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