c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
— Mitchell Baker
I am for 100% equality across the board for everybody, in all walks of life.
— David Furnish
When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
— Edmund Morgan
The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.
— Maelle Gavet
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.
— Chiang Kai-shek
The aim of the Revolution is, so far as the interests of China herself are concerned, the restoration of her original frontiers and, in regard to the rest of the world, a gradual advance of all nations from the stage of equality to that of an ideal unity.
— Chiang Kai-shek
We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
— Maysoon Zayid
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
— Bianca Jagger
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.
— Carre Otis
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
— Golda Meir
'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.
— Dasha Zhukova
Equality in education is my number one battle.
— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
— Kofi Annan
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
— Marlo Thomas
China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.
— Shinzo Abe
We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.
— Pim Fortuyn
There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.
— Brad Thor
We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.
— Adrienne Mayor
I think the key to the whole appeal of Amazons is the egalitarian society. There was once a time and place where equality was taken for granted - it was logical and necessary - and I think most people can get the message that if it happened once, it could happen again.
— Adrienne Mayor
It's sort of fair to say that Amazons, both as reality and as a dream of equality, have always been with us; it's just that sometimes that fiery Amazon spirit is hidden from view or even suppressed.
— Adrienne Mayor
What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality. That's what I'm trying to do with immigration. If what the founding fathers said is true, that we are all equal, then let's fight for that.
— Jorge Ramos
It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
— Joe Jamail
We live in a world where equality is pretty important.
— John Key
Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.
— Bjorn Ulvaeus
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
— Sara Sheridan
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
— Sandra Lee
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
— Gerry Adams
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
— Gerry Adams
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
— Charles de Secondat
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
— Kevin Kelly
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.
— Leland Stanford
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
— Frances O'Grady
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
— Jim Cooper
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
— Christina Romer
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
— Iris Murdoch
We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.
— David Souter
The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb. 
— Robert Casey
We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
— Lynn Schusterman
Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.
— Lynn Schusterman
Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.
— Mike Rogers
The MLK Shabbat Suppers focused on the theme of educational inequity, which Dr. King considered inextricably linked to the struggle for equality and justice.
— Lynn Schusterman
Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.
— Lynn Schusterman
Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
— Mary Douglas
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
— Mary Douglas
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
— James M. Barrie
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
— Ellen Pompeo
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
— Patricia Ireland
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
— Patricia Ireland
I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
— Madhuri Dixit
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
— Henry Giroux
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
— Joe Baca
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
— Frances Wright
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
— Frances Wright
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
— Benjamin Tucker
In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
— Fatema Mernissi
Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.
— Rory Stewart
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.
— David Mixner
As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.
— Arthur Henderson
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.
— Brian Cox
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
— Earl Wilson
It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.
— David Boies
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
— Jane Wiedlin
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
— Lobsang Tenzin
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
— Vladimir Kramnik
In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.
— Andre Holland
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
— John Hume
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
— Emanuel Celler
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
In 1965, I marched for equality.
— Alphonso Jackson
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.
— Paul Tsongas
I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.
— Christine Gregoire
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
— Herbert Croly
The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
— Robert Toombs
The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
— Ian Lustick
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
— Hideki Tojo
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
— Betty Buckley
If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
— M. Stanton Evans
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
— Carol Bellamy
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.
— Antonio Munoz Molina
As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
— Andrea Dworkin
The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.
— Leonard Boswell
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.
— Charles M. Blow
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
— Ed Miliband
As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.
— Hilary Rosen
Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry.
— Jon Tester
I would definitely say I'm a feminist. To me, it just means being attentive and mindful. It's about equality and equal treatment. It feels like a gut instinct.
— Hattie Morahan
Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.
— Hiram Rhodes Revels
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
— Lionel Trilling
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
— Tom G. Palmer
America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
— Nick Rahall
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
— Ferdinand Mount
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
— Hjalmar Branting
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
— Hjalmar Branting
I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
— Quentin Bryce
It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
— Michael Kinsley
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
— Robin Thicke
The sole equality on earth is death.
— Philip James Bailey
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
— Connie Chung
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.
— Sebastian Pinera
I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.
— Sebastian Pinera
My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor economy, have an incentive to take on much tougher issues of income equality. If they show the leadership they have demonstrated in the last few elections, they can bring changes even greater than my generation achieved.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
— David Horowitz
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
— Nancy Friday
I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
— Betty Ford
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
— Anne Campbell
Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.
— Suzanne Brockmann
Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
— Stephen Lewis
You got to fight for quality art and equality and all the things that we're fighting for, the things we believe in. Choice and preference and all those things that we support. We don't want to give up that fight. You got to keep doing it.
— Christopher Cross
I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
— Geoff Hoon
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate.
— Scott Fujita
By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.
— Scott Fujita
Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.
— Clementa C. Pinckney
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Under Tunisian law, a woman can divorce her husband. Total equality.
— Rashid al-Ghannushi
All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.
— David Allan Coe
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
— Agnes Macphail
I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
— Ilana Glazer
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
— Elisabeth Moss
I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
— Palaniappan Chidambaram
All men are born equally free.
— Salmon P. Chase
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.
— Louis de Bernieres
What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes.
— Alan Siegel
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.
— Bob Casey, Jr.
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
— Paul Dirac
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
— Anna Howard Shaw
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
— Mark Pryor
I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.
— George Smathers
Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
— Crystal Eastman
As we celebrate the considerable progress we've made toward full equality in our military, we cannot forget about those who continue to suffer because of the discriminatory policies of our past.
— Mark Pocan
Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.
— Harley Quinn Smith
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
— Linda Ellerbee
We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.
— Tarja Halonen
It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.
— John Reid
Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.
— iO Tillett Wright
I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
— iO Tillett Wright
For me, feminism is about equality. So, when someone works for a Wall Street firm and says they're a feminist, my eyes are going to roll.
— Jodie Evans
The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.
— Johanna Siguroardottir
After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.
— Tim Johnson
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.
— Peter Kreeft
Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.
— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
— Maureen Reagan
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
— Harry Bridges
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
— John Hope
Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.
— Janez Drnovsek
There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.
— Laurence Tribe
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.
— Simon Fuller
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.
— Mark Davis
Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
— Tran Duc Luong
I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
— Anastasia Griffith
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality. 
— John Randolph
Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.
— Kathleen Parker
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
— Irving Kristol
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
— Harlan Stone
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
— Alice S. Rossi
Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.
— Slobodan Milosevic
Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.
— Slobodan Milosevic
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
— Aristotle
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
— Samuel Ullman
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
— Elon Musk
We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
— Bryan White
When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'
— Thomas Friedman
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
— Louise J. Kaplan
Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
— Arnold H. Glasow
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
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
— G. Stanley Hall
Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
— Victoria Justice
We must tell girls their voices are important.
— Malala Yousafzai
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
— Carol Burnett
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
I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
— Wayne Dyer
So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
— Vanessa Hudgens
For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.
— Robin Wasserman
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
— David Elkind
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
— Louise J. Kaplan
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
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
— Winona Ryder
You've got to grow up sometime.
— Winona Ryder
I was considered chubby as a teen.
— Roger Moore
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
— Sophia Bush
All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
— Joan Chen
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
— Mary Pipher
I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.
— Evan Rachel Wood
There's a freshness to the approach of teen chefs. They're lighthearted, and they're not afraid to take risks.
— Alex Guarnaschelli
I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.
— Lauren Oliver
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
— Jane Fonda
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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 isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
— Jena Malone
I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.
— Adriana Lima
Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
— Madisen Beaty
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
I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
— Rob Lowe
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
— Ben Lindsey
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
— Jena Malone
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
— Penelope Spheeris
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
— Fred G. Gosman
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
— Louise J. Kaplan
As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
— Alanis Morissette
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
— Dennis Quaid
I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
— Kiesza
I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
— Tavi Gevinson
It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.
— Kirsten Dunst
I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.
— Anna Kendrick
Sometimes people come up to me and say, 'You were my teen crush.' I'm honored and I'm touched, but I also ask, 'What happened? Why'd you take the poster down?' I get a little heartbroken in that situation.
— Christian Slater
After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist.
— Mark Waters
I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them.
— Grace Helbig
My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.
— David Pogue
I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'
— Jeremy Shada
I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.
— Melody Carlson
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
— Al Franken
I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.
— Rick Springfield
I love my mom so much, and I always have, but I was definitely a monster to her a lot during my teen years.
— Dove Cameron
People ask me, 'How's 'Teen Wolf?' and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had. It's hard. Everybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have. That being said, it's very demanding of you, in so many different ways.
— Shelley Hennig
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
— Claire Danes
I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.
— Shaun Cassidy
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.
— Alan Ladd
In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.
— Benjamin Watson
My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.
— Dustin Milligan
The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.
— Taron Egerton
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
— Dave Barry
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
— Marian Wright Edelman
When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
— Heather Locklear
No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.
— Eddie Vedder
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
— Caitlin Flanagan
I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.
— Connie Stevens
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
— Tommy Chong
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.
— Justin Timberlake
When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
— Beth Ditto
I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make sure they understand what we're doing. By investing in them, I'm investing in the magazine. All over 'Vogue,' 'Teen Vogue,' and 'Men's Vogue,' there are people who have been through not only my office but also many other offices at 'Vogue.'
— Anna Wintour
During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.
— Andie MacDowell
I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'
— Amy Jackson
That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
— Henry Rollins
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
— Anthony Bourdain
Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'
— Chelsea Handler
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
— Deborah Tannen
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
— John Hughes
Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.
— Naya Rivera
Even when I was a teen model, I didn't think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance.
— Tyra Banks
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.
— Tyra Banks
I've started ordering out of teen catalogues! T-shirts, little coats, and jackets for around $35 - they're amazing. I've become a really big fan of Urban Outfitters, Alloy and Anthropologie. Because I'll pay for quality, but I will not just pay for trend. Psychologically, I have trouble with that.
— Ivanka Trump
I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined!
— Shakira
Prosecutors say it would be next to impossible to get one teen to testify in court that another had slipped him or her a copied disc at lunchtime. And besides, isn't sharing music a time-honored part of teen friendship?
— Charles Duhigg
Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were younger, and they were all skinny and all cute. As a teen, I definitely had, like, an extra 30 pounds of weight.
— Christina Milian
People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
— Laura Dern
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
— Roger Ebert
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
— Jason Bateman
People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?
— Jason Bateman
In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults - Steven Meisel, Francois Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York.
— Christy Turlington
There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.
— Kid Rock
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
— Douglas Rushkoff
Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.
— Janet Reno
Ric Flair was such a huge part of my childhood and teen years. He's an icon.
— Darius Rucker
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
— George Foreman
I so think it's limiting to define an audience ahead of time. This is something I've brought on myself by being like, 'There are no 'real' teen publications! That's what I'll do!' But then it's like, well, if I want 'Rookie' to be successful and popular, then people will invalidate the realness by saying it's popular and mainstream.
— Tavi Gevinson
'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.
— Tavi Gevinson