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Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned. -- Paul Di Filippo
Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken. -- David Jeremiah
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means. -- John Calipari
My father told me abuse is generational. -- Glenn Beck
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel. -- Camilla Lackberg
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time. -- Richard LaGravenese
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. -- Robin Marantz Henig
When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. -- Joni Mitchell
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best. -- Judith Jamison
I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. -- Ira Sachs
Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. -- Rahm Emanuel
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after. -- Marianne Williamson
The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful. -- Jane Fonda
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation. -- Ronnie James Dio
We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana. -- Bobby Jindal
It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication. -- Victoria Osteen
I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private. -- Marissa Mayer
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.' -- Nolan Bushnell
And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. -- Joan Collins
What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide. -- Brian Chesky
When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem. -- Jeff Greenfield
People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them. -- Eric Schmidt
I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? -- Nancy Gibbs
There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building. -- David Sze
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold. -- Francis Fukuyama
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. -- Nancy Gibbs
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology. -- Elise M. Boulding
If you want change, it has to be generational. -- Ian Somerhalder
Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences. -- Mal Fletcher
When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there. -- Paloma Faith
It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs. -- Luke Timothy Johnson
I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics. -- Jill Soloway
Bitterness about your parents' brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family. -- John Piper
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children. -- James Dobson
There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great. -- Noah Baumbach
Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing. -- Jill Stein
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something. -- Carrie Fisher
Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus! -- T. B. Joshua
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security. -- Christine Pelosi
Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best. -- Judith Jamison
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission. -- Al Gore
Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now. -- Max Lucado
Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans. -- Ashley Judd
Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science. -- Robin Ince
I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place. -- Orhan Pamuk
My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight. -- Jack Kirby
I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you. -- Daryl Hall
I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is. -- Sigourney Weaver
If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness. -- Ian Somerhalder
I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is. -- Jessica Valenti
For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all. -- Jandy Nelson

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