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My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it. -- Justin Timberlake
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery. -- Ambrose Bierce
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. -- Carol Burnett
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious. -- Max Lerner
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. -- Laurence J. Peter
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. -- Dave Barry
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon. -- Tom Harkin
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. -- George Foreman
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. -- Edgar Friedenberg
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food. -- Henny Youngman
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. -- Fran Lebowitz
I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them. -- Louise Rennison
I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle. -- Erma Bombeck
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. -- E. W. Howe
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. -- Fran Lebowitz
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them. -- Mignon McLaughlin
You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. -- Dean Kamen
When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio. If all the stations are rock and roll, there's a good chance the transmission is shot. -- Larry Lujack
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. -- Art Buchwald
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. -- Virginia Satir
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. -- Quentin Crisp
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. -- Andrew Greeley
Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall. -- Max Lerner
Teenage dreams so hard to beat -- John Peel
Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it. -- Neal Shusterman
I really wanted to call this album Teenage Wet Dream. -- Katy Perry
Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure. -- Rachel Cohn
My favourite shower jam song is 'Teenage Dream' by Katy Perry. -- Justin Bieber
I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly. -- Mark Consuelos
I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood. -- Megan Fox
I grew up listening to Teenage Fanclub and Eugenius. Scottish music cast a huge influence on me. -- Withered Hand
Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened. -- Sienna Miller
Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder. -- Cassandra Clare
My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.' -- Sabrina Carpenter
I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life. -- Geddy Lee
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse. -- Jonathan Lethem
I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' -- Maggie Grace
The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch. -- Adam Garcia
According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months. -- Xavier Becerra
Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. -- Ally Carter
Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family. -- Florence Welch
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all. -- Judith Hoag
I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your Teenage Survival Guide? I said slightly terrifying. -- Dee Snider
Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business. -- Danica McKellar
Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives. -- Camille Paglia
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls. -- Rob Thomas
I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well. -- Matt Smith
I always say there's no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They're predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls. -- Chris Rock
St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes. -- James McAvoy
'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes. -- James McAvoy
My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood...And they're huge human-turtles!! -- Jason Reeves
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. -- John Green
I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have. -- Megan Fox
I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely. -- Jewel Staite
Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever. -- David S. Goyer
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Everybody is a teenage idol. -- Barry Gibb
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'Virgin Suicides' was such a big movie to me as a teenage girl. It blew me away. -- Gia Coppola
I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. -- Rik Mayall
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. -- Clint Eastwood
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park. -- Robert Plant
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship. -- Keri Russell
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper. -- Alan Moore
It's going to be interesting to watch presidential elections in around 2040, when voters can dig up candidates' teenage angst pics and posts from old social media and discussion forum archives. -- Mikko Hypponen
At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it. -- Dan Scanlon
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
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic. -- Gus Van Sant
Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl. -- Chris Hardwick
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring. -- Henry Rollins
I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill. -- Kiesza
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of teenage bedrooms have remained the same. Every girl wants a place that they are proud to call their own and where they can express their own individuality. -- Candice Olson
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! -- Brian Eno
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. -- Barack Obama
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden. -- Taissa Farmiga
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. -- Ani DiFranco
Teenage years, having gone through it all, I know it's a rough, rough time, and I would say to accept that message of letting go, letting it happen and accepting that things don't always happen for a reason, or you may not understand the reason, but it's all part of the journey, and try to enjoy the ride. -- Austin Stowell
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese. -- Mae Whitman
When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e! -- Rob Sheffield
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done. -- Wendy Davis
Delightful as teenage witch-in-training Sabrina. -- Melissa Joan Hart
I was a teenage godmother. -- Theresa May
I find teenage girls endlessly funny. -- Chris Lilley
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. -- Sam Shepard
Lyrics are for teenage girls, brah. -- Eric Anthony
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. -- Rebecca McKinsey
No boy is worth your teenage years!. -- Hayley Williams
Oh, the dilemmas of a teenage psychic. -- Green Elephant Girl
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal. -- Esther Williams
There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl. -- Chris Colfer
Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls. -- Holliday Grainger
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. -- Megan Abbott
I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy. -- Tommy Kirk
Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys. -- Victor LaValle
I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. -- Bonnie McKee
...it's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama... -- David Nicholls
I'm quite disappointed that I'll never relive my teenage years. -- Dasha Zhukova
Don't cry Don't raise your eye Its only teenage wasteland. -- Pete Townshend
I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood. -- Kat Dennings
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism. -- James Callaghan
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs. -- Paul Anka
I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager. -- Jonas Mekas
The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward. -- Aimee Teegarden
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh, dear, what a crime. -- Michael Bay
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime. -- Michael Bay
Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. -- Stephen King
Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life. -- Nicholas Hoult
Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff -- Cassandra Clare
I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature. -- Mal Peet
Believe me, having a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. -- Kathy Lette
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl. -- Robert Genn
An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes! -- Kristan Higgins
What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf. -- Ilona Andrews
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula. -- Bobby Sherman
Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11. -- Michael Crichton

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