Corin Tucker Quotes

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

Corin Tucker

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• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Born
  • Birth
  • Teen

• Everybody is a teenage idol.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Teen
  • Everybody
  • Idol

• I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Myself

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Try
  • Mindset

• I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Star
  • Grow

• I was a handful growing up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Teen
  • Normal
  • Size

• I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Love
  • Myself

• Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • School
  • High
  • Worry

• I don't think you ever love anything as passionately as you do when you're a teen. You remember the books you read as a young person your whole life. I feel so lucky to write for young adults.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Teen

• The history of innovation is the story of ideas that seemed dumb at the time.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Time
  • History
  • Innovation

• I'm a teen-age bride.

  

  Marta Kristen
  • Age
  • Teen

• I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Up
  • Teen

• We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

  

  John Green
  • Family
  • American
  • War

• Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.

  

  Jamelia
  • Time
  • Important
  • Balance

• When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'

  

  Jess Row
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Book

• The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form in American culture has a place to really exhibit itself and dedicated to its own particular conditions of performance.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • Important
  • Art

• I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

  

  Angela Sarafyan

• The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Teen