Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now. ”

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. ”

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old. ”

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually. ”

Despite the frequent use of coal miners as a potent political symbol, coal jobs are disappearing - and they're not coming back. ”

When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane. ”

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline. ”

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. ”

The first generation of Russian terrorists came out of the '60s counterculture - the 1860s in Russia bearing a striking similarity to the 1960s in the United States, with Russian students growing their hair, following gurus who extolled the 'new man,' and starting communes. ”

Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music. ”