Quotes About Gen X

Gen X entrepreneurs are frequently smart, tough, tenacious, and self-made. That said, to succeed in their companies, they often have sacrificed being emotionally involved in their marriages and with their children.

I just adored 'Shaun Of The Dead.' That's a true mashup. That's a real Romero-era zombie movie and a real Gen X indie comedy. That was before zombie movies were cool, before 'Zombieland' and 'I Am Legend,' and now it has become a whole sub-genre.

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.

Part of the Gen X irony fixation was the result of so much accepted obviousness: When you made a TV show about the seventies, you could just call it That '70s Show . Was that title clever, or was that title lazy? It was impossible to know.

It's a Gen X thing to be okay with going unnoticed or unrated or untouched. To be free from strangers' expectations, or anger. People got angry at me when I stopped making music because it seemed I was devaluing everything.

The structure soon became clear: cocaine was for people who'd succeeded, whose principal tool of drug delivery was the rolled bill; pot was for Gen X slackers who wanted to 'chill' or musos who wanted to be 'creative'; and speed was for losers, for junkies who couldn't get heroin, or else for miscellaneous ex-crims with facial tattoos who now did long-haul trucking.