Teenager Quotes - Page 34

• Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

  Michael J. Fox

  Parent, Risk, Brain

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• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Eye, Rocks

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

  Morgan Freeman

  School, Settling, Theater

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• As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

  Neil Gaiman

  Simple, Stories, Answers

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• I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lonely, Writing, Kids

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams". Neil Gaiman remarks at the interational book festival in Edinburgh, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

  Henry Louis Gates

  White, Community, African American

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

  George Gobel

  Inspirational, School, College

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• What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

  Alison Gopnik

  Peers, Want, Rewards

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• Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Ideas, Dumb, Hollywood

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• When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Jobs, People, Way

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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Love You, Reading

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• The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

  Kathy Griffin

  Real, Stupid, Believe

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• As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

  Mark Haddon

  Team, School, Artist

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• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Moving, Heart, Hair

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• I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

  Jon Hamm

  Dad, Guy, Eras

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• Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

  Corey Hart

  Lonely, Oxygen, Scared

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• I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

  Josh Hartnett

  Being Happy, Thinking, Idols

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• Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dad, Ipads, Laptops

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

  Alice Hoffman

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

  Michael Jackson

  Veteran

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• I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

  Marc Jacobs

  Tattoo, Heart, Artist

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.

  Marc Jacobs

  Jobs, Years, Luxury

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• Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Kind, Wells

  The Onion, www.avclub.com. February 25, 1998.

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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• As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.

  Elton John

  Children, Clothes, Kind

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