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“"Little Brother" sounds an optimistic warning. It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty. But it also notes that liberty ultimately resides in our individual attitudes and actions. In our increasingly authoritarian world, I especially hope that teenagers and young adults will read it - and then persuade their peers, parents and teachers to follow suit.”

“Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.”

Men Long Young Boys Saved Bars Teenager Young Man

Book:The Tender Bar

Source: The Tender Bar

“When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.”

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Author:Daniella Alonso

“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.”

“The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.”

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Author:Richard Brookhiser

“I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.”

Wonder Stones Hip Hop Hips Teenager Buying Pockets Hops Rolling Rolling Stones Ascent Popular Music

Author:Simon de Pury

“I think the internet is kind of redefining what it is to be a teenager. Because there's a lot of media that's aimed at teenagers that other people are getting into. But, conversely, pornography or stuff that's intended for adults is completely readily available to anyone, like teenagers.”

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Author:Grimes

“I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.”

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Author:Tavi Gevinson

“It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.”

People Feels Trying Important Reason Stuff Issues Teenager Immature

Author:Grimes

“If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.”

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Author:Imogen Poots

“In the '80s, I was the only one who didn't watch the shows about teenagers. I had to go over to friends' houses to see them. I still don't have a TV!”

Stills Shows House Watches Tvs Teenager 80s

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.”

Thinking Term Crazy Fashion Ideals Teenager Idiotic Conformist Crazy Things

Author:Clemence Poesy

“I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.”

Want Different Girl Pleasure Careers Groups Areas Entertainment Teenager Branches Broadway Music Business Girl Groups

Author:Naturi Naughton

“The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.”

Men Years Kind Children Whole Shows Pleasure Watches Wonderful All Kinds Teenager One Man Bizarre Another Man Whole Family Greatest Pleasures

Author:Andrew Zimmern

“I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog.”

Wanted Dog Baby Easier Teenager

Author:Carmen Electra

“When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.”

Giving Children Our Children Teenager Your Children

Author:Zig Ziglar

“A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a free market or free enterprise as one can get. That's why it causes so much damage and destruction, especially to black teenagers and others whose labor, for one reason or another, is valued by employers at less than the government-established minimum wage.”

Reason Government Law Causes Black Economic Labor Destruction Teenager Damage Enterprise Employee Minimum Entering Free Market Employers Beneficial Minimum Wage Free Enterprise

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.”

Thinking Want Littles Parent Break Safety Teenager Rebel

Author:Saoirse Ronan

“I admire the way golfers handle themselves. But tennis players are a lot younger, as a rule. There aren't many teenagers on the golf tour.”

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Author:Pete Sampras

“I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.”

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Author:Elle Fanning

“I just always remember myself as the teenager with questions about movies and screenwriting. I would hope that there was somebody out there who would answer those questions, and so, if I can take a few minutes to do it, I will. It's not threatening for us. We're not being stalked, so it's easier.”

Ifs I Can Remember Answers Minutes Easier Teenager Threatening Screenwriting

Author:John August

“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.”

Ideas Feelings Seems Running Together Lost Parent Common One Thing Groups Bed Husband Hot Teenager Running Away

Author:Brit Marling

“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Men Children Dies Three Dog Honor Blessing Medicine Misery Stranger Thanks Teenager Feds Afghanistan Agony Foreigners Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Jihad Smallpox Zealot Wild Dogs

Book:I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller

Source: I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller

“When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour.”

Feels Artist Taught Lessons Treats Opening Teenager Opening Up Brad Rascals Kenny Paisley

Author:Taylor Swift

“As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.”

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Author:Ronnie Shakes

“It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.”

Feels Long Girl Boys Long Time Teenager Realising Like A Boy

Author:Kristen Stewart

“You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'”

Hard Sound Feminism Stupid Excuse Core Teenager Comment Illiterate Excuse Me Hard Core

Author:Christina Ricci

“I have been doing merch' since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager - silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom's closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That's essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.”

Has Beens Dark Rooms College Mom Band My Mom Selling Teenager Shirts Survived Closets T Shirt Silk Screening Homemade Doing Me Dark Room

Author:Steve Aoki

“In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.”

Feels Stills Three Week Habit Lows Balls Teenager Estates Three Times Remorse Insulting Insidious Auctions Heirlooms

Author:Dennis Miller

“Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I wrong!”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I am the world's oldest teenager. I've never lost my youthful attitude.”

World Lost Attitude Teenager

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“The only thing I said to my parents when I was a teenager was Hang up, I got it!”

Said Parent Teenager Hang Ups

Author:Carol Leifer

“Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.”

People Thinking Feels Long Lines Forever Alive Teenager Sixteen Disgusted

Author:John Mellencamp

“When I was modeling as a teenager, I just ignored it when people said to lose two inches off my hips. I had more jobs than I could take. So why would I even want more?”

People Want Said Two Jobs Loses Hips Teenager Inches Ignored Modeling

Author:Alexis Bledel

“I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.”

Thinking Different States Kids School Social Grows Growing Up Serious Teenager Canada Different Things Exposed

Author:Neve Campbell

“I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.”

Teenager Veteran

Author:Michael Jackson

“I hated the summer jobs I had when I was a teenager. They were so mundane and repetitious, they deadened my soul. On the bright side, it was good training for this job.”

Soul Jobs Sides Summer Training My Soul Teenager Hated Mundane Bright Side

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.”

Want Mean Serious Teenager Pregnant Being Pregnant

Author:Chelsea Handler

“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.”

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Author:Mae Whitman

“I'm sure we all can remember back in the day when you're 17, naïve, you're sort of just this unblemished teenager. You're sort of sheltered and haven't really seen the real world and then when you do see it, you're just like... "This is the world? This is reality?"”

World Real Reality Remember Havens Teenager Real World Back In The Day

Author:Ellen Wong

“I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.”

Writing Artist Stuff My Own Focus Producers Teenager

Author:LIZ

“I did a series for teenagers and kids called S-Club 7 in LA for Fox Family Channel. And I did it because the children, everybody's children, they don't know who I am. They know I'm the-lady-in-the-movie-they-can't-see. And I was actually offended by that because I think I've done a lot of wonderful work.”

Thinking Knows Children Done Kids Wonderful Series Clubs Who I Am Teenager Foxes Offended

Author:Linda Blair

“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.”

“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

“I think that it doesn't matter if I travel all over the place. I'll always be a normal teenager on the inside. It always depends on how you act yourself, not what happens to you. That's my view of it all.”

Ifs Thinking Matter Happens Views Depends Normal Teenager

Author:Jackie Evancho

“All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.”

Want Young Grows Growing Up Teenager Be Young

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.”

Firsts Heart Littles Artist Teenager Friendly Tattoo Spontaneous Great Artist

Author:Marc Jacobs

“I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.”

Knows Years Stills Jobs House Luxury Teenager Odd Paris Coming Back Visitors

Author:Marc Jacobs

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