Quotes About Youth

I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.

I am a huge hip-hop fan, and growing up, I only listened to hip-hop, so I dressed accordingly.

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.

At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.

I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.

When you can't afford to have the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

I've hired people I've met at parties and other events, and I've hired a lot of people right out of college. It's really based on personality as opposed to experience.

I worked starting when I was 14. I was the reservationist at the Elizabeth Howard dinner theater. They had never hired someone in high school, let alone a 14-year-old.

I came up in Australia and I was really lucky that straight out of school I was hired in a play. It was a production of 'The History Boys.'

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.

When I was a little kid, I don't remember looking up and seeing so many Hispanic athletes out there.

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching.

I think the season I had playing as a kid against men in Reunion toughened me up a lot and taught me how to cope with hits.

My films like 'Shahjahan,' 'Youth' and 'Pokkiri' were major commercial hits.

I used to be a hitter when I was in high school.

Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.

When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.

Wiffle ball was my first experience hitting left-handed.

I don't know if I spent any time on a putting green when I was a kid. I was too busy hitting driver.

I've always loved hitting, and even as a kid, I always hit.