Teenager Quotes - Page 29

• On the other hand, a lot of the internet - I don't know the percentage, but I am sure a great mass of internet use - is pretty superficial interaction amongst people. Its not necessarily a bad thing. A teenager wants to talk to her friend, that's fine, but I think it probably contributes to atomization, which is a threat to the society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Hands, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Every leader needs to watch what teenagers or startup companies - or startup companies headed by teenagers - are doing today, because many of those behaviors will be mainstream behaviors tomorrow.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Leader, Watches, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as their kids become teenagers, try to do the things that didn't stop them themselves. And I jokingly frame this as: Your brain gets wiped of those memories when you become a parent.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Memories, Kids, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.

  Larry Clark

  Teenage, Growing Up, Real

  "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.

  Stephen King

  Guy, Style, Littles

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty insatiable appetite for beer. The first time I got drunk my father found me throwing up in the bathroom. I was 15, maybe 16, and the disappointment in his voice, I can hear it to this day, and the sorrow that that brought to him. He just felt like a failure as a father, and Id give anything to take that day back because that was so hard on him. In time, my life got better, and his did too, but that was really memorable, one of those memories Id like to forget.

  Max Lucado

  Memories, Disappointment, Father

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Thinking, Ends, Minutes

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were playing them as they are now. In a way, I don't know how much of a living memory we as a collective have of them in the '50s, when Margaret was 21 and this sort of Elizabeth Taylor. You don't think of your grandparents as being teenagers. You just can't - your brain just can't go there!

  Vanessa Kirby

  Memories, Princess, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] even said that, whether or not teenagers want treatment, they have to get it. So it's involuntary treatment.

  Peter Breggin

  Want, Clinton, Treatment

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• Youth. The fact that, in the mid-'90s, guys like Lee Fields gave me and all these young people the chance to do backup. I was in my 30s, but some of those guys were still teenagers. Others were 22 and 23 - babies, all of them.

  Sharon Jones

  Baby, People, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People would make fun of me and throw things at me and whatever teenagers do.

  Rose Byrne

  Fun, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're writers then, and when they get to be young teenagers they're not anymore. You might go and talk to them about writing, and they'll be very self-conscious or will have detached themselves from the group.

  Alice Mattison

  Writing, Self, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Tradition

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's very relevant to use a fairy tale to talk about that.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.

  Alia Shawkat

  Fun, Years, Focus

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Even today every year we lose an awful lot of young people, teenagers, who take their own lives because they're - they are gay or transgender.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, Years, People

  "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.

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• When I came to the United States in 1975 I was eleven, and within a few months my voice broke. I recited commercials like a parrot and I got yelled at quite often. My older brother one night said, "You speak so much English when you're not supposed to, that's why your vocal chords shattered. Now you sound like a duck." I thought it was true. I went from this sweet-voiced Vietnamese kid who spoke Vietnamese and French to this craggy-voiced teenager.

  Andrew Lam

  Sweet, Brother, Kids

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• There is the global teenager hypothesis, that what happened in the '60s in America was that there was, the baby boom cohort grew up at the same time that television and popular music grew up, so that we had this carrier frequency that we all tuned into that gave us the feeling of a common culture, even though I was in Phoenix and someone was in Des Moines. That now we are getting the global cohort at the same time we have our first global communications. MTV is everywhere.

  Howard Rheingold

  Baby, Communication, Mtv

  Source: medium.com

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• I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that's what the Grateful Dead is all about.

  Bill Walton

  Grateful, Boys, Live Concerts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.

  Stan Lee

  Superhero, Sidekicks, Pals

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music. So much happened in that 10-year span. There were so many musical revolutions. Some were happening at the same time. You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.

  Boy George

  Sex, Rocks, Years

  "Karma is good to chameleon Boy George". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager.

  Travis Rice

  Motivation, Journey, Snow

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.

  George Michael

  Mom, Names, Calling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Kids, Pot, Enjoy

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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