Teenager Quotes - Page 20

• You know what's the worst? Being a 16 year old girl who loves a famous Singer, not solely for his looks, but because you truly believe he is talented and devoted and you agree deeply with his message. Because no matter how intelligently and fully you can express that, people will assume you're just a silly teenager who thinks a famous guy is cute.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Cute, Girl, Believe

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• It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

  Andrew Greeley

  Teenage, Joy, Sorrow

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• There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

  Ricky Schroder

  Smile, Growing Up, Kids

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• I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Stress, Zits

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• Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Inspirational, Teenage, Heart

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• When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.

  Louise Brown

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

  Goodman Ace

  Father, Cancer, Science

  The New Yorker (1977)

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• I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Years, Firsts

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• Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

  Esther Williams

  Beautiful, Teaching, Believe

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• If kids and teenagers can get into a band, its probably not because they think its brainy.

  Ezra Koenig

  Kids, Thinking, Band

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• When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

  Duncan Sheik

  Track, Machines, Four

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Science, Boys, Yarn

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't accept segregation? I knew then and I know now that, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.' And I did.

  Claudette Colvin

  Thinking, Justice, Adults

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• Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?

  Thomas Szasz

  Inspirational, Baby, Sex

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• In London, almost all Jewish shops in the Whitechapel district were displaying placards denying entry to German salesmen and affirming their anti-Nazi boycott. Teenagers patrolled the streets distributing handbills asking shoppers to boycott German goods.

  Edwin Black

  Asking, London, Nazi

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Dropping Acid, Rocks

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• I always think I should get on it if I want to have kids. Because once you hit thirty it can be difficult to conceive — it can be dangerous. The best time to conceive is when you're a black
  teenager.

  Sarah

  Funny, Kids, Thinking

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• If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

  Norman Granz

  Europe, Looks, Audience

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• I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

  Ryan McGinley

  Moss, Kate

  Interview with with Gerald Matt, Synne Genzmer, www.americansuburbx.com. September 2007.

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• I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

  Peter De Vries

  Inspirational, Country, College

  Peter De Vries (1967). “The vale of laughter”

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• I am critical of myself like everyone else. You go to a movie theater and you are forty feet high. I had bad skin as a teenager and I am a shy person, but I think I am in the perfect business to fight my insecurities. You have to learn to love yourself and say 'I am pretty cool' instead of being so critical. You can easily fall into the trap of doing that.

  Chris Pine

  Fall, Love You, Fighting

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

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• I write books for teenagers because I vividly remember what it felt like to be a teen facing everyday and epic dangers. I don't write to protect them. It's far too late for that. I write to give them weapons-in the form of words and ideas-that will help them fight their monsters. I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Writing, Fighting

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• If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Twenties, Wanted, Puberty

  "The Replacement". Play by Jacob M. Appel, 2008.

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• Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  J. B. Priestley

  War, Politician, Deserve

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