Generation Quotes
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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A lot of the older generation are dying off. The younger generation don't really know it. You don't see a lot of 20- or 30-year-olds eating it.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
