Quotes About Youth

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.

It's amazing how one introductory course in environmental science can turn a 20-year-old into an Biofuels expert.

I was a normal kid. I can't explain how normal I was.

It was a huge confidence builder to stand in front of 34 21-year-olds and explain something to them every day.

The young give us hope because young people are certain their best days still lie ahead - which explains why they're absolutely convinced they can change the world for the better.

There is a lot of talent in our country that needs to be exploited.

I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much.

I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth.

When I was really young, I was obsessed with Bollywood. Then I got exposed to world cinema, and I wanted to be a part of it. Then I was exposed to theatre, and I only wanted to do theatre.

If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

As a kid, I got exposed to city government at an early age. I'm sure that rubbed off on me.

My dad's view about coaching was that you have to express yourself. When I was young at academies, I wasn't allowed to do that.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.

Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

When you're young, you do dumb things. I just can't understand why some other athletes never were extended that same excuse.

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

I don't think a lot of the younger players know the extent of my background.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those extra games.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.