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212 My Generation quotes by 187 unique authors
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I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 -…
— Zachary Knighton
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
— Deborah Kass
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was…
— A. E. Hotchner
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Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and…
— John F. Kerry
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Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors,…
— Robert Cray
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I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so…
— Jorja Fox
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I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.
— Christina Ricci
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I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that…
— Tim Henman
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Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
— Eric Fischl
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Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
— Ani DiFranco
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I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger,…
— John Waters
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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen…
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we had become famous…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of…
— Billy Bob Thornton
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up…
— Stephen Fry
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Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could…
— Henry Louis Gates
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
— Allen Ginsberg
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I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
— Billy Corgan
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Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my…
— Ice Cube
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I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.
— Bette Davis
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Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation,…
— Ronnie James Dio
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But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought…
— Tom Hanks
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I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that…
— Lena Horne
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I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to…
— P.D. James
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