Best My Generation Quotations
212 My Generation quotes by 187 unique authors
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To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
— Deborah Kass
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You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the history of this…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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It is to a dramatist, which is to say, to an unfrocked psychoanalyst, stunning that that which has sustained the Left in my generation, its…
— David Mamet
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There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the…
— Gore Vidal
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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
— Stewart Udall
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
— David Mamet
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My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
— Paul Tsongas
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I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along…
— David Sanborn
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Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to…
— Ricky Skaggs
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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the…
— Jeffrey Wright
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I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to…
— Steve Largent
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For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in…
— Willow Bay
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People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of…
— Aloe Blacc
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So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.
— Rick Baker
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I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the…
— Laurel Clark
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I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.
— Jean Dujardin
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A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on…
— Joe Dante
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My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about…
— Joe Dante
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My generation is under-entertained.
— Dave Chappelle
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My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
— Georgie Fame
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The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about…
— Daryl Hall
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War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of…
— Gustav Heinemann
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it…
— Vanilla Ice
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I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the…
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
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I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or…
— Steven Johnson
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