- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boy Quotes
From playground dreams to fatherly reflection.
This collection gathers quotes touching on boyhood in its many forms, from primary-school friendships and boy scout days to a boy's private ambition to become something larger than himself. See also our Boyhood quotes for more on early years.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
- Beautiful Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
- Nov 07, 2020