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My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.
When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.
One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.
I think our generation, my generation at least, has become much more comfortable with unconventional romantic relationships.
I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.
It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.
Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.
I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.
I don't see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don't think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.
Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.
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?
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.
I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.
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.
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.
Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered.
There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.
Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.
God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation.
Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael Myers - they're all our generation. I think the kids wanted some new guys that they could take ownership of and Jigsaw was that guy.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.
Our generation has become somewhat stripped of identity by the homogenizing effect of technology. So, more than ever, people want to project their own individuality.
[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.
Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don't.
You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.
I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.
Our generation is the most cinematically saturated of all time. Videotapes, DVD's, streaming... Spielberg... all of it has thrust us into an endless loop of consumption.
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.