Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie. ”

I'm a strong believer in kid-empowerment. ”

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means nothing. If you see him coming through a window - that is at once interesting. ”

Even when I was coming through school, I was a loner and I used to study music and play it and play it, and I was in bands. ”

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ”

Heavy metal to me implies a relentless, pounding, hitting-people-over-the-head music. Trend setters tend to dismiss it as basic and simple, but all the time that little trends keep coming and going, the Bob Segers, Bruce Springsteens and the Billy Squiers keep staying. ”

The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them. ”

As someone who runs a solar financing company and founded the world's largest youth clean energy organization, I know solar energy is a very good investment. ”

At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement. ”

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine. ”