Teens Quotes - Page 3

• Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

  Claire Danes

  Inspirational, Girl, Growing Up

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

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• In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

  Stephen Curry

  Boys, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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• If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Inspirational, Teenager, Watches

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• Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.

  Diablo Cody

  Ice, Wish, Storm

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• My friends have made the story of my life.

  Helen Keller

  Healing, Scrapbooking, Stories

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.85, Om Books International

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• Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

  Carol Burnett

  Inspirational, Teenage, Pimples

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• The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

  Julie Burchill

  Lying, Simple, Fleeting

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• A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.222, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

  Terry Brooks

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Witty, Happy Mothers Day

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Mouths, Irony

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Growing Up

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• I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union.

  Vera Farmiga

  Country, Dancer, Unions

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• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Late

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

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• Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

  Jared Leto

  Team, School, High School

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• The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

  Amy Lee

  Malls

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• A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

  Nigella Lawson

  Inspirational, Teenage, Quiet

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• Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

  Alan Ladd

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenage

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• It makes utter sense to stay healthy and strong, to be as nourishing to the body as possible. Yet I would have to agree, there is in many women a 'hungry' one inside. But rather than hungry to be a certain size, shape, or height, rather than hungry to fit the stereotype; women are hungry for basic regard from the culture surrounding them. The 'hungry' one inside is longing to be treated respectfully, to be accepted and in the very least, to be met without stereotyping.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Healing, Healthy

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• A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

  Kelly Link

  Inspirational, Girl, Teenager

  Kelly Link (2009). “Pretty Monsters”, p.360, Canongate Books

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• Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way." "All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was in my teens, I wasn't above using my gift for revenge. None of you did that." Joley slowly raised her hand, sliding down in the chair as she did so. Hannah followed suit, though she didn't look in the least remorseful. Sarah shrugged her shoulders and raised her hand and glared at Elle, who just grinned sheepishly and put up a couple of fingers. Carol tossed her head and waved her arm with gusto.

  Christine Feehan

  Couple, Revenge, Said Life

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• Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.

  Douglas Coupland

  Suicide, Warrior, People

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• My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

  Julian Fellowes

  Successful, House, Childhood

  "Once upon a life" by Julian Fellowes, www.theguardian.com. October 02, 2010.

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• Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.

  Paul Feig

  Ducks, Care, Donald Duck

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