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212 My Generation quotes by 187 unique authors
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My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when…
— Garrison Keillor
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an…
— Allen Ginsberg
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
— Chuck Klosterman
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I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the…
— Stephen King
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A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
— Gloria Steinem
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In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly…
— Joss Whedon
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My generation were all careerists.
— Zaha Hadid
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I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family,…
— Nile Rodgers
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Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act…
— John Francis Daley
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
— Jack Germond
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I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
— Sasha Grey
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The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory,…
— Julian Assange
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People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe…
— Duane Michals
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When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We faced…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big…
— Tom Brokaw
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I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won…
— Seamus Heaney
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After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that…
— Kesha Rogers
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I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when he released his…
— Ronnie Milsap
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Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.
— Tyra Banks
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My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.
— John Updike
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
— Benigno Aquino III
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In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
— Nobu Matsuhisa
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