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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one. -- Warren Littlefield
Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. -- Roger Daltrey
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! -- Patrice Leconte
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. -- Edward Norton
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. -- Allen Ginsberg
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein. -- Deborah Kass
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. -- William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. -- James Truslow Adams
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- Lee Iacocca
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place. -- Dave Grohl
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. -- P. D. James
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there. -- Gore Vidal
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. -- Wynton Marsalis
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. -- John Cleese
I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans. -- Drake
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. -- Julian Assange
People of my generation who became photographers in the late fifties, early sixties, there were no rewards in photography. There were no museum shows. Maybe MOMA would show something, or Chicago. There were no galleries. Nobody bought photographs. -- Duane Michals
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. -- Emma Stone
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? -- Jackie Kennedy
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises. -- Thalia
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. -- Harri Holkeri
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. -- Emma Watson
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be. -- ASAP Rocky
I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent. -- Rivers Cuomo
I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me. -- Elena Kagan
I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that's what I did when I executed 'Long.Live.A$AP.' I wanted people to really see the message and that I'm an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds. -- ASAP Rocky
My generation is under-entertained. -- Dave Chappelle
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. -- Bette Davis
The younger generation will come knocking at my door. -- Henrik Ibsen
My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad. -- Arabella Weir
My generation has the opportunity to change the world, -- Zendaya
We don't need to be feminist in my generation. -- Carla Bruni
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now. -- Geraldo Rivera
I come from a different generation from my Dad. -- George W. Bush
My story has been the story of my generation. -- Marianne Williamson
I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation. -- Timbaland
I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes. -- Garrett Clayton
I really do not understand the members of my generation. -- Zeke Smith
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. -- Madeleine Albright
I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis. -- Chris Isaak
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. -- Beck
In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore. -- Shia LaBeouf
I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation. -- Michael Hastings
I think my generation is a lost generation in a way. -- Nico Muhly
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation. -- Mukesh Ambani
For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS. -- Camille Paglia
Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. -- Michael Gambon
My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them. -- Thea Gilmore
I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation. -- Desi Arnaz
For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms. -- Jim Elliot
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. -- James Caan
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. -- Sara Sheridan
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. -- Arthur Rock
Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family. -- David Mixner
My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer. -- Francis Chan
I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks. -- Ice Cube
Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation. -- John C. Reilly
Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation." -- John C. Reilly
I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence. -- Keke Palmer
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. -- Gloria Steinem
I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo. -- Jessica Collins
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. -- Joy Harjo
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. -- Jewel
I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift. -- Anita Baker
My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.' -- Harry Knowles
I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me, -- Justin Bieber
I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough. -- Jean Dujardin
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. -- Chris Hardwick
Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence. -- Onyi Anyado
There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person. -- T. D. Jakes
Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show. -- Tyra Banks
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. -- Camille Paglia
My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in. -- Russell Hoban
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years. -- George Michael
I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family. -- Dave Attell
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation. -- Angie Harmon
I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation. -- Joan Jett
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. -- Stokely Carmichael
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. -- Paul Tsongas
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. -- Hosea Ballou
Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours. -- Joe Biden
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. -- Emma Watson
Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move. -- Shawn Amos
I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. -- Van Jones
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything. -- Aharon Appelfeld
I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies. -- Andie MacDowell
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men. -- Beeban Kidron
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. -- David Mamet
I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation. -- Hannibal Buress
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life. -- Georgie Anne Geyer
Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail. -- Ani DiFranco
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do. -- Anita Baker
I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation. -- Hannah
Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn. -- Diana Rigg
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. -- Stewart Udall
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. -- Kenneth Noland
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. -- Chuck Klosterman
To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys. -- Deborah Kass
My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me. -- Chronis Missios
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. -- Gore Vidal
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read. -- Chetan Bhagat
I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. -- Erica Jong
Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score. -- Rita Mae Brown
I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids. -- LeAnn Rimes
I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. -- Luther Allison
My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor. -- Ken Kercheval
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable. -- Erica Jong
My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation. -- Erica Jong
I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is. -- Christina Ricci
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. -- Sherwood Smith
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. -- Patti Smith
I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do. -- Kevin Biegel
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll. -- Georgie Fame
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. -- Octavio Paz

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