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“Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.”

Want Inspirational Wells Teenager Teens

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to what I would call now the more 'simple' jazz players (but still very valid), like Barney Kessell or Johnny Smith; I learnt a lot of voicings from Johnny Smith records. Now, I listen to the old blues players; that's what you'd hear in my house if there was music on. It would be Albert Collins or Albert King.”

Ifs Stills Would Be House Simple Music Records Player Listening Kings Jazz Teens Back In The Day Montgomery

Author:Larry Carlton

“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

Inspirational Matter Choices Chance Psychology Childhood Teenager Teens Adolescence

Book:Parenting Your Teenager

Source: Parenting Your Teenager

“In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.”

Facts Three Study Four Internet University Gambling Exposed Teens Gamer Connecticut

Author:Spencer Bachus

“I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.”

Thinking Book Values Dark Ability Numbers Subjects Mines Adults Teens

Author:Chris Crutcher

“In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.”

World Should Years Age America New York Photography Europe Decided Teens Commerce Nyu

Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.”

Two Stuff Built Teens

Author:Christopher Paolini

“Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.”

Inspirational Wanted Girl Growing Up Growing Please Teenager Teens Teenage Good Girl

Author:Claire Danes

“I was totally into jazz in my teens.”

Author:Andy Summers

“Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.”

Self Doubt Skins Thick Teens Sail Elephants Self-doubt

Author:Mariella Frostrup

“In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.”

Given Parent Messages Boundaries Rebel Teens Uprising Tweens

Author:Maggie Gallagher

“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”

“Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.”

Growth Healing Negative Roots Letters Transformation Sacred Scared Seeds Awful Teens Terrific Negative Experiences

Author:Alan Cohen

“In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain gray area. Though it took a while to get here, I now call this gray area home. I once believed that participating in a capitalist economy would be the death of me, but now realize that agonizing over the political implications of every move I make isn’t exactly living.”

Knows World Home Would Be Moving Political Certain Black Realizing White Economy Saws Areas Gray Capitalist Teens Black And White Implications Participating Agonizing Gray Area Capitalist Economy

Book:#Girlboss

Source: #Girlboss

“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

World Healing Wonder Imagine Teens Unseen December

Book:Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa

Source: Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa

“Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”

Remember Inspiring Healing Doors Teens Sanctuary Entrances

Author:Rumi

“Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.”

Ifs Social Media Social Media Teens

Book:It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Source: It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

“I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.”

Sex Party Growing Drug Hollywood Companion Teens Circuits

Author:Tatum O'Neal

“He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The amount of teens wearing the Led Zeppelin '77 tour T-shirts walking around the Rock Hall is absurd. Absurd, ... I saw them on that tour and didn't even buy a shirt. It tells you what these kids feel about music. People take music very seriously.”

People Feels May Doe Kids Saws Rocks Amount Kings Walking Nostalgia Absurd Shirts Halls Teens T Shirt Antiques Zeppelins Apparel

Author:Howard Kremer

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.”

Inspirational Guy Talent Type Ambition Convinced Teenager Teens Insecure My Ambition Type Of Guy Being A Teenager

Author:Johnny Depp

“A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Ideas Facts Dream Imagine Adventure Right Now Ambition Clarity Teens Exotic Unrealized Dreams

Author:Tim Cahill

“Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.”

Inspirational Heart Moments Youth Teenager Sparks Teens Teenage

Author:Raisa Gorbacheva

“Youth is the trustee of prosperity.”

Inspirational Time Youth Prosperity Teenager Teens Teenage Trustees

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.”

Believe Self Hate Mistake Teacher Self Esteem Lows I Hate Blame Esteem Making Mistakes Teens Defects Screws Low Self Esteem Screw Ups Counselor We Make Mistakes

Author:Niki Burnham

“If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.”

Ifs World Humans Speak Silence Messages And Love Sexuality Contrary Void Teens Fill The Void

Author:Jason Evert

“For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.”

Ifs Order Heaven Realizing Forever One Day Infinite Mere Lifetime Investment Following Believer I Realized Teens Time Spent Payoff Following Orders

Book:Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself

Source: Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself

“Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.”

Healing Dare Teens

Author:Pablo Casals

“When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.”

People Persons Hard Enough Young Crazy Fame Add Access Disaster Teens Recipes Single Person

Author:Rob Lowe

“When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and thats definitely reassuring.”

People Thinking Looks Shows Young Audience Middle Reaching Teens Reassuring

Author:Alex Lifeson

“Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.”

Gay Proportion Teens Disgusting Transgender Epidemics Bullied Bisexual

Author:Monica Raymund

“Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.”

Sometimes Helping Healing Trauma Helping Others Teens Help Yourself Helping Someone

Author:Ace Antonio Hall

“Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.”

Knows World Want Looks Lasts Chance Healing Alive This World Teens Last Chance

Book:New and Selected Poems, Volume One

Source: New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.”

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Author:Dwayne Hickman

“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.”

Ifs Past Dies Parent Difficult Dad Died My Dad Awful Teenager Resolve Teens Bad Times Your Dad

Author:Robbie Coltraine

“I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.”

Artist Reading Literature Boys Talent Serious Late Artistic Visuals Teens Visual Art Visual Artist Artistic Talent

Author:Russell Banks

“God send everyone their heart's desire!”

Inspirational Heart Desire Teenager Teens

Book:Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling

Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling

“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”

Inspirational Needs My Friends Teenager Shakes Teens Feathers

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

“Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.”

Inspirational Believe Matter Energy Negative Block Teenager Believe In Yourself Teens Believe In You Always Believe Negative Energy Always Believe In Yourself

Author:Michael Jackson

“Everyone who deals with teens seems to agree that the most important and toughest job is staying in connection and conversation ... not delivering a lecture but saying what we think.”

Thinking Important Seems Jobs Deals Conversation Connections Agree Staying Teens Adolescence Lectures Delivering

Book:Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

Source: Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times

“When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.”

World Feels Writing I Can Character Cutting Emotional Bones Teens Adolescence

Author:Alice Hoffman

“People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.”

People Needs Kids Talking Listening Teens

Author:Naomi Judd

“After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.”

Want Decided Stupidity Handle Hanging Out Teens

Author:Kurt Cobain

“I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything”

Play Records Jazz Teens Jazz Music

Author:Marian McPartland

“Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.”

Inspirational Father Growing Up Growing Tears Enjoyed Teenager Hunting Teens Fathers Day

Author:Dale Earnhardt

“Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.”

House Dumb Teens Dwarves

Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson

“It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.”

Healing Commitment Lists Teens Sleeves

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Currently, without scientific evidence demonstrating safety or effectiveness, we continue to urge Canadians against the use of these e-cigarettes. We have heard that e-cigarettes may be a gateway for teens to begin smoking, while also having the potential to serve as a smoking cessation tool. Today, I am asking the Standing Committee on Health to undertake a thorough study on e-cigarettes and provide a report.”

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Author:Rona Ambrose

“I was having my teens in my 30s.”

Author:Julie Walters

“I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.”

Knows World Process Grew Late Grew Up Twenties Teens

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.”

Thinking World Way Want Self Remember Healing Childhood Happenings Worthy Perceive Yearning Teens Within You

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet