Teenager Quotes - Page 39

• As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

  Kaya Scodelario

  Want, Life Is, Intense

  "Discovery: Kaya Scodelario" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

  Lucille Ball

  Thinking, Others Opinions, Self

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• I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

  Natalie Portman

  Play, Adults, Next

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• I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Long, Doubt

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• More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

  Mindy Cohn

  Watches, Tape, Television

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• Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

  Pauly Shore

  Party, School, Night

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• When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Acting, Saws, Facts

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• I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.

  Kurtis Blow

  Years, Germany, World

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• I was a really pretentious teenager.

  Rebecca Hall

  Pretentious

  "Who, me? Why everyone is talking about Rebecca Hall" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2010.

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• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work---but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  Barbara Gittings

  Country, Fun, Struggle

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• I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

  Ellen Barkin

  Husband, Grandchildren, Two

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• Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love

  Selena

  Girl, Song, Years

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• Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

  Leif Garrett

  Idols, Superstar, Frank

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• A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.

  Lorde

  Taken, Eye, People

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• Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how do you think I feel to have to tell you, 'We, my generation, sat around like a knot on a wall while the whole world was fighting for its hum an rights - and you've got to be born into a society where you still have that same fight.' What did we do, who preceded you ? I'll tell you what we did. Nothing. And don't you make the same mistake we made.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Mistake, Fighting

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• Teenagers think they are invincible

  John Green

  Thinking, Invincible

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

  Milo

  Men, Gaps, Bridging The Gap

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• Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Work, Thinking, Average

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• In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

  Parminder Nagra

  Children, Character, Frustration

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

  Harvey Kurtzman

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Suicide, Gay

  "Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Believe, Men

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Children

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• For a long time our son ws a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Girl, Son, Boys

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• Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop, I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles, The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael, It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'...

  Q-Tip

  Rap, Daddy, Hip Hop

  "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.

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