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Source: [ SURELY, YOU'RE JOKING MR FEYNMAN AND WHAT DO YOU CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK? ] By Feynman, Richard P ( Author) 2006 [ Compact Disc ]

“When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.”

Years Whole Today Powerful Millions Blood Students Building Fit Cost Thousand Computer Phones Cells Pockets Cell Phone Cheaper Mit Blood Cells

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.”

Remember Courses Saws Teacher Students Paid University Stores Ads Minimum Groceries Minimum Wage Grocery Stores Part Time Preps Princeton Princeton University

Author:John Katzman

“When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.”

People Thinking Way Made Ideas Young Views Party Students Grew Mets Grew Up Wings University Conservative Extremes Way Of Thinking Right Wing Countryside Budapest

Author:Csanad Szegedi

“When I was a student I did a report on Madagascar, and ever since then it was my biggest dream to go there. Three years ago I went, and it was so different. We live in this high tech world with Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phones, and there you land and you have nothing. Yet the people live and get by every day walking in the roads, living this super simple life, and they're still happy. It is an experience that keeps you humble, puts things in perspective.”

People World Years Stills Different Dream Three Simple Land Students Perspective Walking Years Ago Phones Humble Reports Three Years Mobile Simple Life Mobile Phones Madagascar

Author:Irina Shayk

“When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.”

Should Careers Comedy Youth Students Periods Ambitious Reckless Hedonism

Author:Steve Coogan

“When I was a student, there wasn't a single thing we did that was unrelated to others. It was all for the Emperor, or parents, or the country, or society—everything was other-centered, which means that all educated men were hypocrites. When society changed, this hypocrisy ceased to work, and as a result, self-centeredness was gradually imported into thought and action, and egoism became enormously over-developed. Instead of the old hypocrites, now all we've got are out-and-out rogues. Do you see what I mean by that?”

Literature Politics Freedom Novel Modern Enlightenment Tradition Western Japan Individualism Egoism Self Centeredness Meiji Turn Of The Century Fin De Siecle Political Liberation Social Hegemony

Author:Natsume Sōseki

Source: Sanshirō

“When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.”

People Philosophy Violence Students Patient Optimistic Hopeful Non Violence Being Optimistic Philosophy And Religion

Author:John Lewis

“When I was a student, I was dressed like a modern girl and I wore long shorts. That is part of the past. There is fear in the streets. You cannot go out in the streets. You are looked at as if you come from another age. If there are any militias on your street, they will tell you to go back home and dress decently. They could beat you up or punish you worse than that. Some of us who have grown up in Baghdad are used to wearing what we please and walking where we please.”

Long Home Age Past Girl Modern Students Walking

Author:Yanar Mohammed

“When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.”

Jobs Law Students Limits Scientist Physics Laws Of Physics

Author:Paul Davies

“When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were two of my most strongest strokes, I would look at how whoever it was that won and beat me and think, "What did they do? What were... What were the qualities that they had that I can incorporate into my swimming to make me better?"”

Thinking Looks I Can Two Loses Quality Beats Heat Strongest Swimming Strokes Swimmer

Author:Hilary Swank

“When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.”

Book Literature Teacher Paper Lays Admire Classroom Desks Papers

Author:Norman MacCaig

“When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it... Though pretty soon I realized... popular girls were just like spam... they promised a lot, but only thing they had and could use were their well-built bodies and ability to apply make-up here and there. Mostly they were deceptive and had no senses... they had no idea about friendship, kindness and beauty as it is. Friendship for them was not something more than poor relations, sort of like in "God Father". Love for them was not something bigger than sex. Kindness for them was to have a kitty or a dog (which was already very rare case)... And beauty for them was... well, you can imagine. Concentrated selfishness”

Friendship Magic Betrayal Secrets Popularity Teenagers

Author:Galina Nelson

“When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.”

Taken Idols

Author:Rob Lowe

“When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.”

Different Body Guy President Laughing Heard Team Students Football Gas Lunch Captains Quirky Football Team Make You Laugh Gas Money

Author:Sarah Dessen

“When I was a teen, or like 18 to early 20s, I used to go to festivals all the time. I'd save all my money.”

Used Festivals Early 20s

Author:Courtney Barnett

“When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of people in the theaters and I saw many of the great shows many times. I would go in and stand in the back - they would let me in, they knew me. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Funny Girl many times just standing in the back.”

People Way Shows Girl Saws Happened Standing Let Me Theater Things Happen Teenager Roof Funny Things Gypsy Forums Fiddlers Funny Girl Fiddler On The Roof

Author:Christopher Walken

“When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.”

Knows World Littles Two Would Be Next Winning Team Brother Brave Series Teenager My Brother Frank Next Time Yankees World Series

Author:Joe Torre

“When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds almost villainous. But I knew that was what I wanted.”

Wanted Sound Decided Teenager

Author:Markus Zusak

“When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.”

Thinking Knows Needs Felt Loses Passionate Intense Teenager Dramatic Retrospect

Author:Taylor Swift

“When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing”

Facts Acting Saws Teenager

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great. I was proud of him. But what about women? He was out fighting the cause, and my mother was at home running the house. Where do women stand in the revolution? I’d seen Paine’s Rights of Man on his bookshelf. I wondered to myself, what about the rights of women?”

Feminism Labor Activism Inequality Labour Women Empowerment Working Class Women S Rights

Author:Bobby Gillespie

Source: Tenement Kid

“When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.”

World Trying Hours Hair Teenager Locks Bathroom Dukes Bisexual Flawless Combs Eyeliner Streisand

Author:Beth Ditto

“When I was a teenager in a band playing, everything was great. I still don't feel any different. I still wake up with the same love and passion as when I did this with the band. Because my life in music has let me live the kind of life that I've loved, and I've been able to share it with others and take care of the people I love.”

People Feels Kind Stills Different Care Able Passion Share Band Let Me Wake Up Take Care Teenager Love And Passion Same Love

Author:Frank Wildhorn

“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.”

People Matter Rocks Abuse No Matter What London Teenager Iceland

Author:Bjork

“When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”

Stills New York Clothes Teenager Buying Antiques

Author:Barbra Streisand

“When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.”

Band Teenager Queens Purple Zeppelins Deep Purple

Author:Steve Vai

“When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.”

Girl Possibility Teenager Young Women Teenage Teenage Girl

Author:Ani DiFranco

“When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics.”

Ifs Late Radio Teenager Electronics

Author:Ken Olsen

“When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... I discovered that all fathers go berserk when their daughters start dating. I have to assume this was because all fathers were once teenagers at some point in their lives, so they had no illusions about whether or not the boys were “up to something.”

Dating

Author:Gary Reilly

Source: Ticket To Hollywood

“When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.”

Country Video Teenager Mexico

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.”

World Stories Stuff Interest Interesting Magazines Teenager Interviews Most Interesting Playboy

Author:Chester Brown

“When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.”

People Persons Black My Own Identity Pride Findings Red Window Green Teenager Fake Black People Bob Black Person Marley Black Pride

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“When I was a teenager, for the most part, I had a really great, easy relationship with my mom, but there are those occasional mom/daughter things that are unavoidable. That's what makes it more upsetting and more true to life. We have great moments, and then we have terrible moments as well.”

Wells Moments Easy Mom Terrible Daughter My Mom Teenager Upset Really Great Occasional True Life Great Moments Mom Daughter

Author:Mae Whitman

“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”

School Activity Theater Teenager Settling Extracurricular Activities

Author:Morgan Freeman

“When I was a teenager, I didn't get to do a lot of the things that other kids my age were doing because my dad was very controlling and he wouldn't allow me to go to school activities, like games and dances. So I didn't have positive expectations for my future or really dream about what I could do with my life. I was just trying to survive until I could get out on my own.”

Trying Dream Kids Age School Games My Own Dad Activity Expectations My Dad Teenager My Future Positive Expectations

Author:Joyce Meyer

“When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.”

Kind Song Rocks Band Singing Jazz Singers Teenager Holiday Opera Rock And Roll Mystical June Lethargy Downtrodden Opera Singers Callas

Author:Patti Smith

“When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.”

Four Machines Track Teenager Recorders Synthesizers Instrumental Music

Author:Duncan Sheik

“When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.”

Faces Teenager Dry Mud Pimples

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.”

Trouble Teenager Bob Dylan Arthur My Boyfriend

Author:Patti Smith

“When I was a teenager, I learned that in order to play guitar like Johnny Ramone, it takes a huge amount of physical effort.”

Play Order Effort Huge Amount Guitar Teenager Ramones

Author:Kevin Shields

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

Teenager Teenage

Author:Dario Argento

“When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.”

Book Found Teenager Bloody Testament Old Testament History Books

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”

Rocks Particular Harder Jazz Guitar Folks Edges Teenager Loud Electric Rock Music Acoustics Folk Music Flutes Electric Guitar Jazz And Blues Acoustic Music

Author:Ian Anderson

“When I was a teenager, I remember I wanted to put so much makeup on - it was just a natural thing over there. Why they do it, I guess, is because historically, there were twice as many women as there were men after the World War II.”

Men World War Wanted Remember Natural Teenager War Of The Worlds Makeup World War Ii World War I Natural Things

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“When I was a teenager, I thought I wanted to be an actor. I worked on an Indian soap opera that was my first exposure to production. But I quickly became disillusioned by acting and seeing that in the movies I loved and the TV I loved, no one looked like me. There weren't going to be any leading roles that would be interested in casting someone with my face.”

Firsts Would Be Wanted Faces Actors Acting Roles Seeing Tvs Productions Like Me Teenager Indian Opera Casting Exposure Soap Soap Operas Disillusioned

Author:Meera Menon

“When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.”

Happens Childhood Normal Complexes Teenager Normality

Author:Audrey Tautou

“When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.”

Soul Wanted Three Groups Buddhist Teenager Monk Three Things Soul Searching Buddhist Monk Greenpeace

Author:Dave Wakeling

“When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.”

Book Fiction Crime Reader Contemporary Teenager Crime Fiction

Author:Michael Connelly

“When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.”

Years Body Bigs Hair Glasses Fats Teenager Torture Shy Eyebrows

Author:Gloria Estefan

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