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• I’m optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

  Peter Mandelson

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Generation

• Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don’t wanna move out. They don’t want to and they don’t have the means to sustain it. That’s where my heart is and that’s what I think about all the time.

  Ice Cube

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Generation, Heart, Means, Nice

• I don’t like giving names to generations. It’s like trying to read the song title on a record that’s spinning.

  Ian Williams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Trying

• The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

  Peter Garrett

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Generation

• It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents’ generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents’ generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

  Peter Fonda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation

• 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

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Generation, Trying, Attract

• It’s a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the ’70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

  Peter Criss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Youngster

• My generation is under-entertained.

  Dave Chappelle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation

• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Generation

• Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

  Frederic William Farrar

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Again, Generation

• I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.

  Paul Westerberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Feelings

• They’re a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They’re not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They’re like, it’s cool and everything, but whatever. They’re just as impressed by YouTube.

  Black Francis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Kids

• It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation

• Correcting it, I don’t know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

  Paul Kantner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Correcting, Generation

• Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

  Billy Bragg

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Generation

• People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology – although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

  Paul Hawken

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Generation

• There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

  Paul Goodman

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Damage, Generation

• The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

  Paul David Hewson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, Poverty

• Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age.

  Frank Pittman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generation, System, Question

• No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

  Frank Norris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understood, Generation