Bruce Williams
Author
"Never love anything that can't love you back."
Teenage quotes
Teenage
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Hayley Williams
Singer, Songwriter
"No boy is worth your teenage years!."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
Keri Russell
Actress
"People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship."
Sienna Miller
Actress
"Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened."
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"The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do."
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"I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs."
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"The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese."
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"No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start."
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"Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you."
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"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall."
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"Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller."
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"I was a teenage godmother."
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"The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."
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"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"It is not chic to be too chic."
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"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance."
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"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
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"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
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"Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers."
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"I always wanted to experience the street life because my teenage life in Aberdeen was so boring. But I was never really independent enough to do it. I applied for food stamps, lived under the bridge, and built a fort at the cedar mill."
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"If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence."
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"What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around."
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"It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then."
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