Teenager Quotes - Page 33

• It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all the work I have done - from my first forays into an art practice many years ago to my work with typography and book design.

  Michael Salu

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Dog, Believe, Brain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We continue to examine things ever so minutely, we interpret obsessively. We may be less bold at 40 than we were at 17, but we're familiar with the road map; we know the bumps in the road; we recognize the sudden turns, the one-way streets, and the dead ends. And we are hurt just the same as when we were teenagers.

  André Aciman

  Hurt, Speak, Critics

  Source: www.glamour.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Teenage, Possibility

  4 Copy quote

• Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Art, Reading, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• When people hear about legal restrictions on marketing and advertising, often the response is: Aren't you just being a food nanny? Isn't that government playing too much of a role in our lives? When people have that response, they're forgetting the extent to which what kids are eating and drinking is having as much of an impact on their lives as, say, if they were starting to smoke cigarettes as teenagers. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses.

  Anna Lappe

  Drinking, Kids, People

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She told me that by the time girls are teenagers, when she asks them how sexual experience made them feel, they respond by how they think they looked; they think that how they look is how they feel.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Thinking, Desire

  4 Copy quote

• When I was a teenager, the way some of these kids out here be actively gay, it would have been ridiculed in the hood. And now the hood is a bit more accepting. Begrudgingly accepting, but definitely more accepting than 20 years ago when I was a little kid. That doesn't mean that anybody should stop fighting for equality just because people are begrudgingly a little more accepting.

  Talib Kweli

  Mean, Kids, Fighting

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview With AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random patterns. I need the joke to hurt more; I want it to sink deeper than the postmodern grin.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Hurt, Fun, Winning

  6 Copy quote

• I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream

  4 Copy quote

• I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Newspapers

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fighting, Made, Anxious

  "Exclusive: Penélope Cruz on Shooting the 2013 Campari Calendar". Interview with Kristina Soriano, www.elle.com. November 13, 2012.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

  John Cusack

  Stars, Enough, Disgusting

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

  John Cusack

  Talking, Years, Mouths

  4 Copy quote

• I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Stars, Character, Idols

  8 Copy quote

• Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.

  Roger Daltrey

  Rocks, Support, Generations

  9 Copy quote

• Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

  Claire Danes

  Inspirational, Girl, Growing Up

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

  Claire Danes

  Waiting, Shed, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.

  Beth Ditto

  Bisexual, Hair, Trying

  "What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was younger, I always did movies that teenagers would watch, not adults. I did 'Crazy/Beautiful' or comedies like 'Bring It On.'

  Kirsten Dunst

  Beautiful, Crazy, Adults

  4 Copy quote

• Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Growing Up

  9 Copy quote

• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Mean, Hollywood, Violence

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

  Eminem

  Friends, Rap, Kids

  20 Copy quote

• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  Gloria Estefan

  Glasses, Hair, Years

  7 Copy quote

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Giving, Parent

  "Interview With Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina: "The Nation With The Best Brain Power Wins"". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 31, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source