#tee

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#american #anyone #anywhere #captive #hostile

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money. ↗

— Murray Walker

#bad #because #comes #everybody #gone

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6. ↗

— Larry Wall

#done #fine #get #perl #plan

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#again #back #go #grown #hard

Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them. ↗

— John Walters

#biggest #biggest influence #children #influence #parents

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. ↗

— John Walters

#grow #grow up #healthy #interest #making

In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived. ↗

— Burt Ward

#book #conservative #deprived #eighteen #even

You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#board #city #funny #george #george washington

If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#automatically #draw #either #good #guaranteed