Younger Quotes

• When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • People
  • Interested
  • Hairstyles

• I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

  

  Ricky Schroder
  • Childhood
  • Younger
  • Adulthood

• When you're younger, you do take things personally.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Younger
  • Personally

• In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. And then by 20 they were circling out of punk rock back into Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, the stuff that I didn't get to when I was younger.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Interests
  • Younger
  • Sabbath

• To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Moving
  • Afraid
  • Shame

• I am now in a place where I have to be truer to myself first before anyone else. If you're not real, how can you expect others to be real with you? The older you get; you aim to have an understanding of who you are as a person. But, I can honestly say, I am a better me than I've ever been in younger years.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Understanding
  • Younger
  • Not Real

• But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of...when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Recognize
  • Younger

• I’ve become bit more relaxed with Creation now, when I was younger I never really had a choice because if I had failed I would have probably ended up on a fucking building site or being a bus driver but luckily it worked out for me and Creation got really big.

  

  Alan McGee
  • Building
  • Creation
  • Younger

• Age to women is what kryptonite is to Superman. Inside every older woman is a younger woman screaming, 'Get me the hell outta here.'

  

  Kathy Lette
  • Women
  • Superman
  • Screaming

• Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Roles

• I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

  

  Mike Oldfield
  • Lawyer
  • Younger
  • Collections

• I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.

  

  Negash Ali
  • View
  • Younger
  • Dedicated

• When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

  

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
  • Wanted
  • Something
  • Younger

• Everyone was becoming someone else. Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Old
  • Younger

• For me, I've gotten better at that since I've gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Good
  • Older
  • Younger

• When I was a lot younger, I did some work with St. Jude's, but then we went on a 'Red Band' tour across the United States, and we went to a bunch of hospitals and had the privilege of meeting kids who are suffering or going through these different situations.

  

  Nolan Sotillo
  • Kids
  • Younger
  • Hospitals

• I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

  

  Mike Tice
  • Ambition
  • Younger

• When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Remember
  • Famous
  • Jumping

• Looks alone won’t get you that far. It may get you in the door, but there’s always somebody younger, somebody prettier. You have to rely on something else.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Door
  • Looks
  • Younger

• When I was younger ,I used to want to be, like, a back-up dancer, and my mom was like, 'Well, you know, you can do that, but you might want to choose another career.'

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • Career
  • Choose
  • Younger

• I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Female
  • Younger
  • Alternative

• I have a lot faith in the younger generation of music lovers. Youth isn't living in the past; if somebody tells them that there's something better than what they have, they're going to check it out. And if they like it, they're going to get it. I'm not worried about the youth. Young people aren't just looking back, they are also looking forward.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Music
  • Past
  • Younger

• I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Shine
  • Younger
  • Old Age

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