Young Quotes - Page 29

• I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't really have an accurate or comprehensive understanding of what it is - by proudly identifying as a feminist.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Thinking, Feminist, Understanding

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.

  Shawn Johnson

  Summer, Girl, Life Lesson

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• An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• [Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

  Agnes Varda

  Strange, Painting, Changed

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Enemy, Way

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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

  Teenager, Thinking, Boys

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

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• Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

  Dana Bash

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Balance

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

  Victoria Beckham

  Girl, Writing, People

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.

  Tubby Smith

  Dream, Dad, Growing Up

  "Noah's interview with Coach Tubby Smith". Woodbury Interview, www.woodburybulletin.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

  Betty Wright

  Sometimes, Shows, Entertaining

  Source: ratedrnb.com

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• I always wanted to play in a pink boot ever since I was young. I never saw anyone play in a boot like it. I think it's an outstanding colour and looks amazing.

  Nicklas Bendtner

  Thinking, Play, Looks

  Interview with Nike Vapor Berry, www.soccerbible.com. November 26, 2008.

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• When I was young I was very close to my parents. I never liked staying at my mates' houses, I always wanted to be with my parents and then suddenly at 17 I was like, "Oh well, maybe I should just move half way around the world."

  Gregg Sulkin

  Moving, Parent, House

  "Interview – Gregg Sulkin returns in Wizards of Waverly Place". Jewish News Interview, jewishnews.timesofisrael.com. May 22, 2013.

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• At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

  Li Cunxin

  Children, Years, Careers

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

  Bailee Madison

  Thinking, Bridges, Age

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

  Cary Elwes

  Realizing, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Husband, Kids

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

  Dacia Maraini

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• Adults don't know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say "this is my" about your child, without taking into account that you're dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young.

  Dacia Maraini

  Children, Confused, Real

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza,

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• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  Dacia Maraini

  Ideas, Liberty, Fiction

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.

  Dacia Maraini

  Beach, Pain, Sea

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

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• I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Powerful, People, Happens

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I love to compete. I competed in 40-50 matches internationally all across the world. I'm young, I'm healthy, and I love to compete. If I don't compete, I'll get bored.

  Henry Cejudo

  Bored, Healthy, World

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• I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

  Joel Plaskett

  Teacher, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.

  Joel Plaskett

  Real, Boys, Men

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.

  Mike Horn

  Daughter, Thinking, Two

  Source: nicksmithphoto.wordpress.com

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