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I'm an older generation. -- Martin Scorsese
The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation. -- Jake Shimabukuro
For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized. -- Ryan Holmes
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation. -- Etta James
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them. -- Brendon Urie
I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment. -- Alan Hansen
Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can't. -- Slim Jimmy
I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. -- David Oyelowo
My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation. -- Britt Robertson
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. -- Ben Rattray
While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant. -- Ted Dekker
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased. -- Ellen Key
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. -- Shimon Peres
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives. -- Ian Botham
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. -- Camille Paglia
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense. -- Tadashi Yanai
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud. -- Lisa Marie Presley
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later. -- Jonathan Kozol
Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it. -- Jim Backus
I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious. -- Raf Simons
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me. -- Vivienne Westwood
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth. -- Ted Dekker
The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. -- Laurence J. Peter
I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45. -- Oliver Stone
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. -- Estelle Parsons
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible. -- Igor Levit
A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it. -- Marc Almond
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment! -- Israelmore Ayivor
We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians. -- Thomas Bangalter
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard. -- Wynton Marsalis
Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them. -- Max Anders
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people. -- Joanne Harris
What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation. -- Marilyn Manson
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities. -- Ellen Ullman
The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back. -- Ally Carter
Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller. -- Paul Walker

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