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I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.
You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.
Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.
Seeing Wolf Eyes for the first time - I was fifteen. I had this crazy feeling that this my generation's Stooges. I got infected by that energy.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main influence.
There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by each new generation.
In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?
For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.
I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.
Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.
The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.
The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I'd like to create and write more music that represents them.
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.
I come from a generation that had no monitors on the sets. You had to go with the director's conviction and be happy with it. I still work like that.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
If I've got a message to the younger generation, it's this: don't be scared of failure. Get out there, try things, and never be afraid to ask for help.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.