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Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

~Alice Englert

Topics: Actually Believing Bit Body Fairies Generation Ground Grow Grow Up Had Happened Know Last Leave Lying Magic Never Part Powers Spirit Still Think Trying Up Which Working You I Think

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I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Addictions Adult Because Being Break Delicious Enlightened Even Famous Feed Focused Generation Got Habit Hard Just Money Most Next Next Generation People Salt Something Spend Students Sugar Takes Think Universities Very Ways Wealthy World I Think

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I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

~Alicia Silverstone

Topics: Actor Came Generation Taboo Tv Whom I Came

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Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Becomes Brains Change Children Created Different Different Way Each Each Generation Environment Few Generation Generations Grows Human Human Mind Just Mind New New Generation Parents Radically Up Way Wired

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When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Both Father Generation Met Mother Night Parents Part Post-War School Waitress Were Worker

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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: About Addiction Generation More Music Nothing Singular Than This Generation

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Best Destroyed Generation Hysterical Madness Minds My Generation Naked Saw Starving

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I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Any Basic Beat Beautiful Being Could Course Creation Generation He Human Human Being Idea Idiot Imagine Literature Most Most Beautiful Prince Recommend Saint Yourself

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The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Area Basically Beat Communist Generation Idea Interpretation Lawrence Misinterpreted Misunderstood Rebellion Social Through Which

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Girls slightly younger tended to be Donny Osmond girls or Michael Jackson girls, but for my generation, it tended to be David Cassidy.

~Allison Pearson

Topics: David Generation Girl Jackson Michael Michael Jackson My Generation Slightly Younger

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