Teenager Quotes - Page 31

• We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.

  Tanya Plibersek

  Enough, Coming Out, Knows

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Hillary Clinton is somebody who has had a passion for families and children since she was a kid, in a Methodist youth group as a teenager in the suburbs of Chicago.

  Tim Kaine

  Children, Passion, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

  Dolores Huerta

  Police, Want, Injustice

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!

  Declan Shalvey

  Sweet, Character, Mind

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.

  Zoe Leonard

  Lying, Trying, Sound

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• The thing I learned is that the work is getting done by people who dig in and work on a particular project: the people who spend 20 years sustaining a theater for black teenagers in Chicago; the people who reintroduce sticklebacks into Strawberry Creek in Berkeley and then wait patiently for the first egrets to show up.

  Robert Hass

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Being a teenager who's coming out during a national debate about whether there's something wrong with you, something wrong with the fact that you love someone of the same gender, that's a terrible thing.

  Tanya Plibersek

  Facts, Debate, Gender

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

  Nan Goldin

  Hollywood, Saws, Film

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I'm very much thinking in music most of the time, but I really would love to start filming because when I was a teenager, that was my big hobby and it was always fun for me to explore that world.

  Trentemøller

  Fun, Thinking, Hobbies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been doing four-track songs by myself since I was like a teenager, where I'd sing in a way that I ... I just didn't think other people would like it, so I didn't play it for them but eventually I got over that, which I'm happy that I did, because it's kind of a drag to be playing a kind of music that you don't really like as much as another kind.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Lucky, Littles, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

  Aisha Tyler

  Dad, School, Car

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We have to prepare our teenagers and our children for a world away from us. That requires explanations. That requires understanding.

  Andy Andrews

  Children, Understanding, World

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Living an Extraordinary Life, Finding Your 'Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. November 19, 2013.

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• While I was rapping I was always involved in youth work - I ran music workshops for teenagers and young offenders all the time and also ran a charity for refugee kids for a time.

  Doc Brown

  Rap, Kids, Charity

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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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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• When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Dad, Kids

  Source: www.daystar.com

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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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• Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Sound

  "Frankie Boyle: Live". Comedy, 2008.

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• I'm the youngest, too. When you're the youngest of a big family, people are like, "You're the baby, you're spoiled!" The fact of the matter is, when you're the youngest of a big family, by the time you're a teenager, your parents are insane. You're like, "Hey, I'm going roller-skating-" "You're not going roller-skating or you'll end up pregnant like your sister. Why don't you smoke pot and become a lawyer?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• I think a lot of young teenagers try to get esteem from accolades from other people, or boys, and what you learn as you get older is that you have to create that within yourself.

  Fergie

  Thinking, Boys, People

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

  Jackie Collins

  London, Los Angeles, My Sister

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• I started out as a teenager I was a snooker player, or pool player. Through that I met some other teenagers that were gamblers, if you will, who started basement games. I was just sort of learning on the go, losing my $10.

  Daniel Negreanu

  Player, Games, Losing

  Source: pokerworks.com

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