Young Quotes - Page 28

• A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Evaluation

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Men, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Age, Trying

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

  Maya Angelou

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.

  Maya Angelou

  Cynical, World, Persons

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

  Maya Angelou

  Men, White Man, Black

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Europe, Numbers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

  John Lithgow

  Sleep, Class, People

  "John Lithgow on Process, His Past and Playing an Artist in Love Is Strange". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. July 17, 2014.

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.

  Lee Daniels

  Father, Hero, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm with the Grimms on this: stories for young and old. You can't characterize them any better than that.

  Philip Pullman

  Stories, Grimm, Old You

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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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, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

  Julia Alvarez

  Book, Writing, Passionate

  Source: ncac.org

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• I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

  Julia Alvarez

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: ncac.org

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• A lot of the young people make beautiful films or big films or are able to finance them, but they can't get anyone to distribute them, they can't get anyone to see them, so they go to these thousands of film festivals. So I still believe that even though a young kid might be able to make a masterpiece or something that changes the direction of cinema, the issue of how to get it to people is still not solved.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Tim Ryan, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 15, 2010.

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• It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.

  Oliver Kahn

  Football, Fun, Men

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Sports, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I never wore a tie voluntarily, even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper, and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

  Evo Morales

  Teacher, School, Ties

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Remember

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and it feels like you're an ex-patriot in Paris in the 20s. You're like, 'Hey, isn't that a young Ernest Hemingway over there? Yeah, I think it is! Hey, let's go have a look and see what he's writing... It's a Gap application.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Coffee, Writing

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• I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Real, Humor

  "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Thinking, Self

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• When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Real, Revolution, Trouble

  Interview with Alex Park, www.believermag.com. July 2013.

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• When you're young and you first see the extent and depth of the world's hypocrisy, it's fun to go after it. But by the time you're sixty, it's so commonplace. What's the point in ridiculing people anymore? Their existence itself is a sort of sick joke.

  Harold Ramis

  Fun, People, Sick

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reality, People, Giving

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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