Just Kids Quotes

• Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

  Neil Young

  Country, Kids, Support

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• I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Support, Sides

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

  Patti Smith

  Growing Up, Hands, Sometimes

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black

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• Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Now men had walked upon it, rubber treads on a pearl of the gods. Perhaps it was an awareness of time passing, the last summer of the decade. Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

  Patti Smith

  Summer, Growing Up, Moon

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black

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• We're all just kids who grew up way too fast.

  Luke Hemmings

  Kids, Way, Grew Up

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2013

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• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  Patti Smith

  Grief, Grieving, Hands

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

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• I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

  Patti Smith

  Long, Want, Sides

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

  Patti Smith

  Jesus, Sin, Mines

  Song: Gloria

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• After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today.

  Andrew Mason

  Years, Today, Half

  "Groupon CEO: 'I Was Fired Today.'" by John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Tired, Kids

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #16: "Lost Hearts"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• Everybody, doesn't matter who you are, escapes time. And for me, nothing is stranger than the thought that kids are just kids. Nobody is just anything. Whether you are eight or eighty, you've got your own unique take on how weird this world is.

  Peter Orner

  Kids, Unique, Eight

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In comedy, I hate that cop-out where you say, "Just kidding." I know you're just kidding. Don't insult my intelligence by spelling it out for me that much.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Hate, Comedy, Insult

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.

  James Iha

  New York, Kids, Artist

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• I fired the nurse the next day because she didn't check out the NFL schedule in advance - just kidding, ... I plan to be in Denver. I haven't missed a lot of games over the years. But there's a bunch I wish I had.

  Lamar Hunt

  Years, Games, Nfl

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• I think it's very important - no matter what you may do professionally - to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• I keep everything that is most important to me close to me: my family, my bible, my X-Box - just kidding.

  Brian Littrell

  Important, My Family, Boxes

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• There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Giving Up, Way, Band

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• I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

  Ian Rankin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Ian Rankin: 'I am, of course, a frustrated rock star'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.

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• I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything.

  Demetri Martin

  Would Be, Ridiculous

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

  Jon Ronson

  White, Aids

  Jon Ronson (2015). “So You've Been Publicly Shamed”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.

  Anne Frank

  Kids, Forever, Missing

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.111, Hamilton Books

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• I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

  Harvey Pekar

  Kids, Stories, Stuff

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• I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

  Patti Smith

  Kids, Thinking, Crafts

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• ...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2005). “House of Thieves”, Penguin Press HC

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