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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

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've got to grow up sometime.

~ Winona Ryder

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

~ Corey Taylor

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

~ Martin Seligman

Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.

~ Steve Aoki

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

~ Ethel Waters

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

~ Andrew Shue

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

~ Clyde Tombaugh

If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.

~ Max Irons

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

~ Mia Kirshner

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

~ Elizabeth Gillies

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

~ Rider Strong

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like, Oy! It's the same thing again!

~ Marla Sokoloff

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.

~ Brendan Fehr

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

~ Kerr Smith

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

~ Nas

Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.

~ David Ogden Stiers

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

~ David Bowie

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

You are the music while the music lasts.

~ T. S. Eliot

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

~ Dolly Parton

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.

~ Amy Winehouse

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

~ Frank Zappa

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

~ Sun Ra

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!

~ Keith Richards

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.

~ John Green

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

~ Dave Van Ronk

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

~ Sam Shepard

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

~ Jimmy Buffett

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

~ Paul Simon

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

~ Grace Slick