Teenage Quotes - Page 9

• I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Ideas, People, Records

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• If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

  Antony Sher

  Believe, Writing, Self

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• Millions of American families are dealing with teenage pregnancy... It is true that some Americans will judge Governor Palin and her family. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Pregnancy, Judging, Palin

  "Sarah Palin and the Chaos Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. September 3, 2008.

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• Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters.

  Edwin Moses

  Children, Pregnancy, Kids

  "Olympian Edwin Moses Helps Kids Clear Their Own Hurdles". "Here and Now" with Meghna Chakrabarti, www.npr.org. August 20, 2013.

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Wind, Two, Chicago

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• I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

  Roger Daltrey

  Country, Childhood, Rural Areas

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• From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

  Eric Jensen

  Years, Brain, Birth

  Eric Jensen (2005). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, p.11, ASCD

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• My teenage freinds when I was growing up, they have no idea that I attained liberation but I help them. They don't need to know. I can send them energy and light and help them in their evolution.

  Frederick Lenz

  Growing Up, Buddhism, Light

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• I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

  Chanel Iman

  Beautiful, Years, Two

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• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Inspirational, Wish, Usual

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• In my view, the problem with many conservative Christian parents is that they won't allow their children to have a different worldview from their own, and they don't forgive normal teenage experimentation, which they consider rebellion.

  Julia Scheeres

  Christian, Children, Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I just think it was time [in THe Neon Demon]to do a film about women. But not just women, I wanted to do a movie about a teenage girl. It was a great counter to the masculinity of "Drive."

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Girl, Thinking, Neon

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

  Bethany Cosentino

  Girl, Favorites Things, My Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

  Joe Goddard

  Symphony, Littles, Wonderful

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.

  Joe Goddard

  Song, Writing, Two

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.

  George Pattison

  Moving, Loss, Mourning

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

  Elise Hu

  Girl, Men, Japan

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Artist

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen, in part, that got me into the Marine Corps, because that was a ticket to Asia. So I spent a couple of years on Okinawa and began reading and thinking about how I wanted to go about conducting my life.

  Sam Hamill

  Couple, Reading, Marine

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying.

  Dee Snider

  Children, School, Survival

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media.

  Paul Bloom

  Son, Media, Two

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I've been in bands since I was about fifteen, so there are probably quite a lot of terrible teenage songs kicking about somewhere. I'm not sure what it was about to be honest, I think it was probably just something along the lines of teen angst.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Thinking, Kicking

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• I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Boys, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Black And White, Years, Often Can

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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