Quotes About Youth

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

My childhood dream was never to be a politician.

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

In the old days I'd like to have been a politician, when I think the world was more idealistic. When I was young I did a lot of campaigning.

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

I heard it from a friend of mine who told me about a group of people where he grew up in Detroit who called themselves Pony Boys that souped up Nitro cars.

As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

When I was watching 19 and 20-year-olds go through this, dropping out of college to become famous on the Internet, I saw that it can go well but it can also go poorly, and usually it'll be a mix of those two things.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

The Busted thing happened when I was 16. I saw an opportunity, took it and it was better than being at school. It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.

This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I've been doing it for a long time.

Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven't really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things.