Young Quotes - Page 34

• I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Dad, Awards, Ideas

  "Ed Begley Jr. on Blunt Talk, St. Elsewhere, and Spinal Tap". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2015.

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• It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

  Alessia Cara

  Taken, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're young, you're very insecure. And if I could learn, if I could revisit my own past I could say to myself, don't think too much, just get on and do it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Past, Thinking

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• There are distractions, all around. There's so much media, for a young kid to battle against, to get to something soulful. You have to make a decision, on your own, what you can take from these people, if you can dig deeper. It's nice to be able to let people dig deeper.

  Jack White

  Nice, Kids, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Wisdom, Years, Hopeful

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• A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

  George Chapman

  Men, Thinking, Age

  All Fools act 5, sc. 1 (1605)

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• When you're young and fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

  Roy Rogers

  Horse, Fall, Age

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• The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

  Francis Bacon

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Teenager

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• I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

  Petronius

  Believe, School, Men

  Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

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• The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

  Heywood Broun

  Heart, Threat, Pure

  Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”

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• I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

  Ronaldo

  Notebook, Disappointment, Player

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• There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."

  Francis Bacon

  Mother, Father, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1850). “The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England”, p.113

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• Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Old Man, Exception

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• The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

  Voltaire

  Children, Heart, Religion

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• The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

  Paul Johnson

  Book, Writing, Perfect

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• A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

  Robert Anderson

  Inspiration, Writing, Waiting

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• The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.

  Erik Erikson

  Teaching, Order, Giving

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• More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?

  Matthew Kelly

  Education, Technology, Thinking

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• Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Honor, Age

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• It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

  James Stewart

  Friendship, Men, Play

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• When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

  Kevin James

  Dad, Entertainment, Nintendo

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• I would guess that the typical profile of a 'follower' is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don't have an inner life.

  Oliver James

  Typical, Followers, Empty

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