"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."

-- Lester Bangs

#Teenager Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Uprising Quotes

“All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.”
“This is what it's like to get old: You still feel 19, except your knees hurt”

Source : "Regrets at Fordham". Interview with Keith Gessen, nplusonemag.com. December 17, 2011.
“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”
“I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.”
“I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.”

Source : "Duran, Whitaker Head Boxing Hall of Fame" By John Kekis, www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2007.
“A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.”
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.”
“I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.”

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