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"I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy."
"My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection."
"When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise."
"You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard."
"We may be the generation that sees Armageddon."
"Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to.""
"My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in."
"Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into."
"Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?"
"When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know."
"Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in."
"Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs."
"I really do not understand the members of my generation."
"There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation."
"I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45."
"What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation."
"I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore."
"I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks."
"My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this."
"With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now."
