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Youth Quotes
Not a number, but a way of showing up.
This collection touches on youth as both a social phenomenon and a personal outlook - referencing anti-drug campaigns aimed at young people, the pull of crowds during teenage years, and the classic idea that study defines youth itself. Also see Dream.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other team literally tried to stop me from going on the pitch. He was like, 'How old is this kid? Where is his ID? Where is he from?'
- Donation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.
- Fashion Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
- Old Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.
- Everyman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
- Cram
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
- Emotional Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
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I wasted so many years in my youth.
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