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" Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception. "

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" Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. "

" It's so easy as a teen to feel like everybody is having this normal experience - except you. You're on the outside. "

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" I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die. "

" We must tell girls their voices are important. "

Malala Yousafzai

" We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. "

" In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show. "

Benjamin Watson

" I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. "

" To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. "

" Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?' "

" When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. "

" As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen. "

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "

" It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes. "

" The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. "

G. Stanley Hall

" When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' "

Thomas Friedman

" Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. "

Laurence J. Peter

" The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem. "

" I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea. "

" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "

" Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation. "

" You've got to grow up sometime. "

" Youth comes but once in a lifetime. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself. "

" When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. "

" Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. "

" You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret. "

" I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation. "