"Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to……" — Sarah Churchwell
"Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression."
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10 Quotes by Sarah Churchwell
Sarah Churchwell has 10 quotes on this site.
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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.
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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have…
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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party:…
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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not…
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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of…
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline…
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration,…
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More Adolescent Quotes
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one of 152 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Nicholas Rescher
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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