Generations Quotes - Page 26

• Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.

  Robert Reich

  Education, Military, Adventure

  "Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

  Desi Arnaz

  Males, My Generation

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sex, Thinking, World

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• I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

  Igor Levit

  School, Machines, Texting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Voice, This Generation

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

  Erykah Badu

  Believe, Want, Language

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also get the chance to play a fantastic, complex, interesting, emotionally passionate, young lead role.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Play, Interesting, This Generation

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like it's so, sort of representative of a generation. I mean everything that they talk about in the books are things that I get. Even like a lot of the Canadian references because I've worked in Canada a lot, so I totally know Sloan and I know, you know, all this stuff, and meeting Chris Murphy was really cool, and yeah, everything.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Book, Mean, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Miley [Cyrus] is so sweet. In this generation - and I know because I have two teenage boys - they don't really have to care about things. It's kind of a desensitized generation. I'm so impressed that she's really vegan and outspoken about animal welfare.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sweet, Teenage, Animal

  "Pamela Anderson Loves Miley, Has No Opinion on the 'Car-Crashians'". Interview with Corinn Jackson, www.elle.com. December 14, 2015.

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• Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Children, Thinking

  "Finding Truth: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Fashion, Young Generation, Culture

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• The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

  Al Kooper

  Mean, People, Doubt

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• Part of me also knows that this generation is the least racist and most pro-gay, so that's great. But they have a real lack of gravitas. And they have no taste in music. Vampire Weekend? Can we play some music, please? Can we rock out for a minute? Where's your Metallica?

  Greg Behrendt

  Real, Gay, Weekend

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• I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Thinking, Style, Mixing

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• I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Thinking, Comedian, Next

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• I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Hbo, Rocks

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• Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams.

  Bill Simmons

  Team, People, Together

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• Participation trophies are the soul herpes of a generation.

  Christopher Titus

  Soul, Trophies, Herpes

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

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• Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

  Eugene Mirman

  War, Tragedy, Politics

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• I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

  CC Sabathia

  Games, Video, Nintendo

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• I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

  Dana Gould

  Kids, Kung Fu

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• I've always been open about who I am and my sexuality. So, it wasn't hard at all. If I can show that I'm out and I'm fine and everything's OK, then hopefully the younger generation will definitely feel the same way.

  Brittney Griner

  Who I Am, Way, Sexuality

  FaceBook post by Brittney Griner from Apr 18, 2013

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• I go down to New York, do the project, and leave. I have no interest in participating in the rat race down there. Hip jazz fans know who I am. There's a generation of musicians in New York who know my records better than I do.

  Paul Smoker

  New York, Who I Am, Race

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• What I'm trying to do is bring certain of those engineering values into the design process, such that when you think about form you're already incorporating those performance criteria in the process of the generation of forms.

  Neri Oxman

  Thinking, Engineering, Design Process

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• My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

  Gjon Mili

  Photography, Creating, Leaps And Bounds

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