Teenager Quotes - Page 20

• If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

  Ezra Koenig

  Kids, Thinking, Band

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• When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

  Duncan Sheik

  Track, Machines, Four

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Science, Boys, Yarn

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.

  Claudette Colvin

  Thinking, Justice, Adults

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• Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

  Thomas Szasz

  Inspirational, Baby, Sex

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Asking, London, Nazi

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Dropping Acid, Rocks

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• I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black
  teenager.

  Sarah

  Funny, Kids, Thinking

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• If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

  Norman Granz

  Europe, Looks, Audience

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• I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

  Ryan McGinley

  Moss, Kate

  Interview with with Gerald Matt, Synne Genzmer, www.americansuburbx.com. September 2007.

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, College

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that.

  Chris Pine

  Fall, Love You, Fighting

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

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• I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Fighting

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• If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Twenties, Wanted, Puberty

  "The Replacement". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2008.

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• Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Politician, Deserve

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• It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

  Greg Graffin

  Discovery, Order, Ideas

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• Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.

  Dennis Etchison

  Memories, Halloween, Thinking

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• Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

  Frank Abagnale

  Thinking, Years, People

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• At the same time, eroticism in the home requires active engagement and willful intent. It is an ongoing resistance to the message that marriage is serious, more work than play; and that passion is for teenagers and the immature. We must unpack our ambivalence about pleasure, and challenge our pervasive discomfort with sexuality, particularly in the context of family. Complaining of sexual boredom is easy and conventional. Nurturing eroticism in the home is an act of open defience.

  Esther Perel

  Passion, Home, Play

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• I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

  Dana Snyder

  Love Is, Aqua

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• The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

  Clay Aiken

  Self Esteem, Who I Am, Feet

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• I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.

  Amy Winehouse

  Girl, Stupid, Smart

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Firsts, Knows, Ifs

  "WD Interview Bonus Q&A: Sarah Dessen". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. June 3, 2011.

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• As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

  Richard Linklater

  Writing, College, Play

  "How Richard Linklater Turned a “Crazy, Wildly Impractical Idea” Into an Oscar Front-Runner". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. June 27, 2014.

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• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Home, Talking

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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