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" Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. "

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" At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since. "

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" Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. "

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" I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with. "

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" I was considered chubby as a teen. "

" Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. "

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" A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. "

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" We must tell girls their voices are important. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once. "

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" Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument. "

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" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations. "

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" I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them. "

" Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible. "

" Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized. "

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

" Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. "

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

" Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. "

Louise J. Kaplan

" To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. "

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" As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. "

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

G. Stanley Hall

" 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. "

" Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed? "

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

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Becky Albertalli

" 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. "

" Youth comes but once in a lifetime. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

" Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. "