A Quote by Rosemary Mahoney

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Rosemary Mahoney

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Rosemary Mahoney
American - Writer
Born: January 28, 1961

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alanis Morissette

Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits, of adolescents trying on various selves.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.

Dana Hill

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

Kenneth Lonergan

I try to take it as it comes. I'm constantly trying to please myself. That's why I've basically realised now, that nothing else in the world matters at all, just please yourself and the people you love and that's it.

Dev Hynes

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I were reborn, if I were a teen-ager now, starting my career as a composer, I would do again what I have done.

Krzysztof Penderecki

When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

Anne Graham Lotz

Everything that was interesting was outside of Poland. Great music, art, film, hippies, Mick Jagger. It was impossible even to dream of escape. I was convinced as a teen-ager that I would have to spend the rest of my life in this trap.

Olga Tokarczuk

I guess in my house when I was growing up, I was comfortable trying to be funny. And my dad, of course, it bugged him sometimes. He was trying to rest, and I was constantly trying to say something stupid to get a reaction. But I like doing these movies. You can do it in front of the camera and then it's over. I don't have to worry about being in front of too many people.

Adam Sandler

I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.

Tom Jones

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

Steven Wilson

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.