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Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep is good, he said, And books are better. -- George R. R. Martin
Even a fool learns something once it hits him. -- Homer
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. -- Jean Houston
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds. -- Aberjhani
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother -- Homer
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. -- William Faulkner
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. -- Dave Barry
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. -- Dr. Seuss
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. -- Justin Timberlake
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. -- Linda Hogan
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell. -- Charles de Lint
This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away. -- Susane Colasanti
Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. -- Marcus Aurelius
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. -- Brennan Manning
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism or self-destructive behaviors that result from trauma. Maybe I Will may help some teens know they're not alone. -- Cheryl Rainfield
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. -- Johnny Depp
In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years. -- Joel Osteen
Teens find out a lot from other teens. -- Ally Condie
Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now. -- Jay Asher
Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do. -- Kevin Systrom
Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab... -- Wendy Mogel
Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds. -- Kim Harrison
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are? -- John Green
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal. -- P. C. Cast
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. -- James Franco
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them. -- Nancy Lublin
Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team. -- Jared Leto
Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us. -- Mary E. Pearson
Teens are dealing with the same problems now in the '90s as they did back in the '70s, the only real difference is the clothes we wear! -- Mila Kunis
Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed. -- Linda Fiorentino
Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world. -- Mary E. Pearson
Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable. -- David Levithan
Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens. -- Kami Garcia
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. -- J. K. Rowling
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. -- D. H. Lawrence
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens. -- Camille Paglia
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change. -- Monica Raymund
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Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. -- Mariella Frostrup
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. -- Dwight L. Moody
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. -- Lionel Blue
A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible. -- Maria Sharapova
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. -- Meg Cabot
I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens. -- Imogen Poots
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. -- Susan Estrich
I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! -- Cy Coleman
I didn't really blossom until my mid teens, and by that time I had to work on my personality to make people like me. I found it easy to make people laugh and I was always pretty popular. -- Eva Longoria
Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle. -- Jane Fonda
I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel. -- Jimmy Cliff
Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers. -- Jacob Latimore
Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to. -- Brittany Snow
I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. -- John Green
I can't stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people - it really cheers me up. -- Ariana Grande
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness. -- Erin Gruwell
After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. -- Gayle Forman
My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it. -- Zubin Mehta
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating. -- Jessica Biel
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. -- Julie Burchill
I became conflicted in my late teens. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
I was totally into jazz in my teens. -- Andy Summers
I was having my teens in my 30s. -- Julie Walters
I've been an amateur photographer since my teens. -- Gaspard Ulliel
All teens are in trouble in one form or another. -- Buzz Osborne
My kids probably started drinking coffee in their late teens. -- Howard Schultz
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD. -- J. K. Rowling
In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd. -- Jennifer Garner
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. -- Lydia Davis
It was a lot of 'Dungeons and Dragons' all through my teens. -- Drew Goddard
When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy. -- Torbjorn Tannsjo
I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians. -- Jon Stewart
If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. -- John Walters
I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school. -- Anton Yelchin
The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are. -- Amy Lee
Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s -- Eva Mendes
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Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as armed teens? -- Stefan Molyneux
Ever wonder why the media never refers to 18 or 19 year old American soldiers as "armed teens"? -- Stefan Molyneux
Most teens arenâ??t addicted to social media; if anything, theyâ??re addicted to each other. -- danah boyd
I'm a big believer in giving teens a voice and opportunities to share their stories and experiences. -- Deborah Reber
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you -- Jodi Picoult
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. -- Maya Angelou
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met. -- Malorie Blackman
There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined. -- John Walters
Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure. -- Chelsea Handler
I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.' -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one. -- Brook Tesla
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. -- Lois Lowry
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends. -- Herbie Hancock
I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming. -- Markus Persson
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. -- Loretta Young
Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens! -- Keri Hilson
I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything -- Marian McPartland
After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity. -- Kurt Cobain
I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. -- Ana Monnar
Marijuana is a much bigger part of the American addiction problem than most people - teens or adults - realize. -- John Walters
You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map. -- John Lennon
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. -- Jo Nesbo
I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff. -- Christopher Paolini
We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know. -- Sue Johanson
I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories. -- Sophie Nelisse
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. -- M.M. Kaye
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows. -- Buzz Osborne
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care. -- Paul Feig
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left. -- Robert Winston
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. -- George Carlin
I wish America would stop judging and criticizing teens and instead, try to understand the battles they have to fight every day. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to. -- Lindsay Pearce
Our teens are embedded in a culture driven by competition and perfectionism, where success is defined by status, performance and their appearance. -- Auliq Ice
I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides. -- Andrew Solomon

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