Teenager Quotes - Page 35

• Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Home, Kids

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• Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!

  Khloe Kardashian

  Forever, Doubt, Style

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• You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!

  Anna Kendrick

  Football, Silly, Twilight

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• Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

  John Knowles

  Today, Accepting

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• As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.

  Queen Latifah

  Bigs, Breasts, Big Breast

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• Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  People, Focus, Realizing

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• When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.

  Denis Leary

  Pants, Punk, Revelations

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Independent, School

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• I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

  Adriana Lima

  Jealous, Sometimes, Concerts

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• Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Morality, Force

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• Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

  Ezra Miller

  Struggle, Healthy, Trying

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• I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Thinking, Gossip, Criticism

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• I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether my writing's spoken or written in a blog, paper, book or printed on the side of a submarine.

  Dylan Moran

  Book, Writing, Submarines

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

  Alanis Morissette

  Taken, Eye, Thinking

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Luxury, Would Be, Records

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• I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, House, Homework

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• Confidence; as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Cat, Kids

  "Haruki Murakami: 'I took a gamble and survived'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2011.

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• When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Feelings, Would Be

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• We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

  John Oates

  Years, Two, Going Away

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• The vampire underworld is much larger than most people could imagine. It exists in all the cities mentioned in the book, but also in many, many more. Teenagers, especially, seem to like to act out vampire fantasies.

  James Patterson

  Book, Ghouls, Cities

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• I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

  Sara Paxton

  Thinking, Peer Pressure, Peers

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• Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

  Jodi Picoult

  Suicide, Gay, Wish

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• I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

  Jodi Picoult

  Growing Up, Moving, Writing

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• I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

  Dennis Quaid

  Avid, Average, Bowlers

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