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“I guess some of the most delightful moments of my teenage years were when I was trying not just to educate myself but trying to educate others. And I could see how the lives of children could be transformed in that.”

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Author:Amartya Sen

“I'm a huge fan of Tupac. I'm from Chicago and his music helped me kind of get through that phase of my childhood, my teenage years. He was one of the biggest artists of all time and his music got me through just day to day life. He was a key to our generation and culture and he still is, even after his passing.”

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Author:Cory Hardrict

“My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.”

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Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Men in their teenage years and even into their mid to late 20s, they're just baboons. They're really not capable of taking account of other people's feelings, being considerate, being intimate. And this is the bottom line.”

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Author:Michael Catherwood

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

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Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.”

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Author:Tony Parsons

“From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.”

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Author:Dennis Prager

“People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.”

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Author:Keri Russell

“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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Author:Virginia Satir

“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.”

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Author:Danielle Steel

“My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.”

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Author:Justin Timberlake

“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“A lot of people do that kind of nostalgia stuff believing that they were very happy in their teenage years, but that's probably just an illusion.”

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Author:Jo Brand

“There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.”

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Book:Saturday

Source: Saturday

“I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.”

“Have you ever found your heart's desire and then lost it? I had seen myself, a portrait of myself as a reader. My childhood: days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew, forbidden books read secretively late at night. Teenage years reading -trying to read- books I'd heard were important, Naked Lunch, and The Fountainhead, Ulysses and Women in Love... It was as though I had dreamt the perfect lover, who vanished as I woke, leaving me pining and surly.”

“She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.”

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Author:Derek Landy

“Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.”

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Author:Bob Phillips

“Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.”

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Book:Afterthoughts

Source: Afterthoughts

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

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Author:John Ciardi

“Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.”

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Author:Holly Hunter

“How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.”

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Author:Aimee Teegarden

“I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.”

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Author:Rik Mayall

“I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.”

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Author:Tommy Kirk

“A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, ‘It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”

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Author:Quentin Crisp

“I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.”

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Author:Spalding Gray

“When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.”

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Author:Dave Lombardo

“I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.”

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Author:Tim Cahill

“I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.”

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Author:John Cale

“The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.”

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Author:Eric Allin Cornell

“The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.”

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Author:Steve Buyer

“I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.”

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Author:Chester Brown

“I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.”

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Author:Dana Hill

“God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.”

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Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you”

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Author:Donna Ball

“In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.”

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Author:Robert Breault

“Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

“In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.”

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Author:Julius Erving

“I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.”

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Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.”

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Author:Chanel Iman

“When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.”

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Author:Aidan Chambers

“Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.”

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Author:Ally Carter

“I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.”

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Author:Jennifer Egan

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