“By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
Youth quotes
264 youth quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“When I was young, I was looking for people to look up to - role models I could respect.”
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“That's the problem with your generation. You guys sat around with your vintage T-shirts and your participation medal, and you never did anything.”
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“You, young people! You think that you know everything. That nobody's ever lived before you. Don't you think that I know how it feels to be picked up by La Migra and sent away? Without ever seeing my family? Without ever knowing what will happen? Do you want to teach me something about survival?”
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“My old man was watching a documentary about insects rooting on fig leaves, so I caught the end of the world news. And I saw this guy who was being chased by his own government, and I didn't understand anything about it except that he was wearing a Nick Cave t-shirt. And then I wondered how a guy my age, with my taste in music, had gotten himself...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“What are we, in the sixth grade? I'm not going to eat this.”
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“You know what the twenties are for? Having sex with all the wrong people. Not to get married.”
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“The old dreams were good dreams, they didn't work out, but glad I had them.”
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I have to admit, you know, I did the fair bit of [hesitates] masturbating when I was a little younger. I used to call it "stroking the salam", yeah, you know, "pounding the old pud". [pause] I never did it with baked goods, but you know your uncle Mort, he pets the one-eyed snake 5-6 times a day.
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“- Nadine: Hey.
- Mr. Bruner: Busy.
- Nadine: I don't wanna take up a ton of your time, but I'm gonna kill myself. I just thought an adult should know.”
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“- Horsemouth: Just cool, man - me have money, man.
- Madgie: Cool? The youth them no ask you fe no food, man! Them ask me fe food!”
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“There are other things important. You're a kid of nineteen. You're nineteen and I'm forty-sev... I'm almost forty.”
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“At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.”
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“There are times when parents must be disobeyed.”
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“When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.”
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“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
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“I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.”
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“I was not, shall we say, a go-getter. I guess I was sort of a bum.”
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“- Giles: Oh! God, to be young and beautiful. If I could go back to when I was 18 - I didn't know anything about anything - I'd give myself a bit of advice.
- Elisa: [in sign language] What would you say?
- Giles: I would say: Take better care of your teeth and fuck, a lot more.”
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“For the most part, young actors in Hollywood are actors by default. They're morons.”
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“Obsession is a young man's game.”
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“People forget, especially the young.”
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“I'll probably end up doing something depressing, but young.”
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