Young Quotes - Page 23

• Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun.

  Henry Rollins

  Fun, Rocks, Long

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• When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, Decision, Fit

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, Long, Haunting

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Science is the engine of prosperity. All the prosperity we see around us is a byproduct of scientific inventions. And that's not being made clear to young people. If we can't make it clear to young people they're not going to go into science. And science will suffer in the United States.

  Michio Kaku

  People, Suffering, Prosperity

  "Michio Kaku and The Physics of the Future". Interview with Clayton Stearns, scriptphd.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.

  Keke Palmer

  Philosophy, Happy Life, Careers

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Being of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.

  Keke Palmer

  Kids, Meeting Someone, Might

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

  Steve Carell

  Gun, Thinking, Lucky

  "Steve Carell On Anchorman 2". Interview with Elysha Krupp, uk.askmen.com. April29, 2014.

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• Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

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• I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.

  Marc Maron

  School, Grandmother, Profound

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• When I was a young comic in New York and I wasn't getting any work, I was wandering around the Lower East Side with my notebook. I would stop at the guitar place on St. Mark's and talk to that dude for a while, then I'd go to the bookstore and talk to that dude for a little while. I had a guy over at the record store, and I'd talk to him for a while. It kept me connected to life.

  Marc Maron

  Notebook, New York, Guitar

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until when I was about 16. By the time I was 16, I was like, I'm guna do this. I don't care what happens. I'd play whatever other instruments fell into my hands along way.

  Steve Kimock

  Light, Guitar, Hands

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• The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.

  Kellee Stewart

  Girl, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

  Herve Falciani

  People, Example, Justified

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, White, People

  "When I'm looking back I'm actually trying to find some kind of a key to go forward". Interview with Jake Nussbaum, logger.believermag.com. August 5, 2014.

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• When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, People, Giving

  Ian McEwan, Ryan Roberts (2010). “Conversations with Ian McEwan”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• I was a chubby, chubby little tub-tub. At the times when it mattered: twelve, thirteen, and fourteen. I'm so happy I was. If you're beautiful young, you really miss out on developing parts of yourself.

  Rashida Jones

  Beautiful, Missing, Twelve

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2013.

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• I feel sorry for the young people today. I think there's too much paparazzi and not enough protection.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I actually wanted to be a fashion designer. I did a lot with the sewing machine at home - - for Barbie or for carnival or just for fun. Then I saw this ad in the newspaper. And as young girls sometimes do some stupid things, I filled in the coupon and sent in my photos.

  Heidi Klum

  Girl, Fashion, Fun

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• Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I went ahead and accepted that responsibility when I was young and it paid off. That was really the only goal.

  Yo Gotti

  Mother, Responsibility, Goal

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• There are a lot of things going on that's causing a lot of these young kids to head in the wrong direction. I know a lot of kids that are cutting school. I try to give out a positive message, trying to get kids focused. If they don't then they're going to end up like every other hoodlum in the street.

  Prince Royce

  School, Kids, Cutting

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• Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

  Assata Shakur

  Issues, People, Hip Hop

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• I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

  Michael Scott

  Memories, Taken, Age

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• I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• I've published over 100 books - and that is divided about 50/50 adult and young adult. Lately, I have been writing more YA, which is such a great genre to write it. I don't have a favourite (I usually say it's the last book I've written), but certain books do stick in the mind. My very first YA novel, The Children of Lir, will always be special to me, and, of course The Alchemyst because it was a series I'd wanted to write for ages.

  Michael Scott

  Children, Book, Writing

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