#my generation

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together. ↗

— Patty Murray

#everybody #gardens #generation #get #had

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. ↗

— Edward Norton

#generation #having #life crisis #my generation

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis. ↗

— Jana Novotna

#guess #had #i #interests #late

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#australia #back #came #changed #conscription

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#generation #get #good #good actors #into

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. ↗

— Robert Smith

#any #difficult #end #end result #find

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#because #books #british #eccentric #english

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#films #generation #my generation #plays #television