Teenage Quotes - Page 9

• Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

  Ken Marino

  Girl, Self, Hey

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

  Christina Ricci

  Hate, Believe, Kids

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

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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in The Bling Ring. I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Mom, Fun, Crazy

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• Everyone just talks about the problems our teenage girls are facing and what they're dealing with. But there was, to me, a void in how they were being served or helped. I thought, 'Wow, I'd love to create something.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Wow, Void

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• I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

  Miranda Otto

  Teenager, Thinking, Periods

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• I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

  Rik Mayall

  Years, Childhood, Very Happy

  "Rik Mayall: Forever young". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2000.

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• You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

  David Cassidy

  Sweet, Kings, School

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• When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Years, Bully

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• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  Gary Cole

  Kids, Guy, Facts

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• I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

  Tommy Kirk

  Years, Unhappy, Teenage Years

  "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.

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• A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair.

  Bill Maher

  School, Kids, Cutting

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• The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

  Armond White

  Dark, Past, Knights

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• I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.

  Anna Kournikova

  Doing What You Love, World, Knows

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• Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

  Pete Townshend

  Past, Trouble, Adolescence

  "Spokesman for a generation", www.cnn.com. January 14, 2003.

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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Meaningful, Baby

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Thinking

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Gambling, Evil, Addiction

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Children

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

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• Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Patterns, Life Is, Rich

  Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”

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• Never love anything that can't love you back.

  Bruce Williams

  Love, Fathers Day, Daughter To Father

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• Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Flowering, Highest

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• Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.

  Leona Lewis

  Teenage Love, Letting You Go, I Can

  Song: Better in Time, 2007

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• Don't pretend to know me when I don't even know myself.

  Paula Hernandez

  Teenage Love, Know Me, Knows

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• How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting against you or hating you or all those so-called teenage problems. I think that's finally when they're old enough to stand up to you and say, 'What a hypocrite you've been all this time. You've never given me what I really wanted, which is you.

  John Lennon

  Children, Hate, Kids

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