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I've always said that musicians are the comics of my generations and comedians are the politicians of my generation.
Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.
I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.
Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.
There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.
I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.
I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.
The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.
So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
Protecting the dignity and the security our seniors have earned is a commitment that spans generations and party lines.
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
No film survives because of a big name. If a film has to survive generations, it will survive on its content and craft.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.