Generations Quotes - Page 31

• For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' It was an album that really spoke to a generation. The theatrical show encapsulates that feeling and brings it to an even wider audience.

  Jake Epstein

  Wall, Feelings, Green

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• Every generation in America has faced the same question, do we we want America to be special? Or do we just want America to be another country? The time has come again.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, America, Special

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• Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Two, Interesting

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• For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has filled a gap in that venerable genre with his painstaking but simple mathematical descriptions of familiar, mundane physical phenomena. This is nothing less than a mathematical field guide to inanimate nature.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Animal, Simple, Understanding

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• Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

  Jose Marti

  Sweet, Hate, People

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• Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

  Andy Stanley

  Broken, Leader, Hearted

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• Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Horse, Two

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• I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

  Barack Obama

  War, Our Generation, Terrorism

  "Democrats Debate in the Windy City". www.npr.org. August 8, 2007.

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• If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Careers, Important, Next

  Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.

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• 'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Night, Fever, Fame

  "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.

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• For, besides, that many persons find too sensible an interest in perpetually recalling such topics; besides this, I say, the motive of blind despair can never reasonably have place in the sciences; since, however unsuccessful former attempts may have proved, there is still room to hope, that the industry, good fortune, or improved sagacity of succeeding generations may reach discoveries unknown to former ages.

  David Hume

  Discovery, Despair, Age

  David Hume (1999). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.59, Open Court

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• Through our government's updated science, technology and innovation strategy, we are making the record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs and opportunities, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government's Canada Research Chairs Program develops, attracts and retains top talent researchers in Canada whose research, in turn, creates long-term social and economic benefits while training the next generation of students and researchers in Canada.

  Ed Holder

  Jobs, Technology, Opportunity

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• When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Leader, Research

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Teacher, Art, Doormat

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

  Ishmael Reed

  Cousin, Grandpa, Comedian

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

  Marc Almond

  Today, Way, Conservative

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on their dignity with the ongoing assault on public life and its myriad democratic institutions. Today's generation faces an enormous battle in turning back the current assaults on the social state, higher education, and the social good.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Battle, Today's Generation

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Fighting, Political Language

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

  Robert James Thomson

  Car, Different, Mess

  "Dr. Gridlock" with Robert Thomson, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

  M.I.A.

  Fields, Next, Ifs

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Brain, Shrinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors. We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them. This movie shows that perspective from Scott's character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It's a nice little twist.

  Adam Beach

  Children, Nice, Character

  "‘Diablo’ Interview: Adam Beach". Interview with Andrew Hawkins, chud.com. January 9, 2016.

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• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

  Etgar Keret

  Israel, Facts

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Sorry, People, Judging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Country, Book, Kids

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