Quotes About Youth

In the daytime, I was expected to be the straight-A student. I was expected to be college bound. I was expected to be a great big sister. And then at night, I was just a club kid.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

I grew up with my friends, wrestling around, imitating guys like Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Chris Jericho, Dean Malenko.

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

Politicians have an arrogance that I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debates in high school.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

I think for young people, there are so many issues, not only student loan debt but health care and all these various issues that I believe can impact the quality of your life.

I had over $3 million in medical debt as an 18-year-old.

It's all been a bit of a rush, but I think that happens when you make your debut so soon after leaving school. You've had this dream, and suddenly you're doing it, and everything happens very fast and hardly slows down.

I think 18 is a good age to make your debut.

Balotelli I have known since I gave him his debut at 17.

It is every boy's dream to make his debut for Liverpool.

As a kid, I always dreamed of making my senior debut.

My debut season was a good one for me, especially at 16, but I said that I want to improve.

We had 'Forever Young' since way before our debut.

When I first came in Stuart Pearce was great for me, gave me my debut at 17. Back then I wasn't really playing for much and you could just go out there and enjoy it.

When I was barely 21, I was making my Pride debut. That was at the beginning of my career.

I was very young when I made my debut, I was almost like a kid getting that kind of success and adulation which was difficult to cope.

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.