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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

— Patricia McCormick

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.

— Raymond Arroyo

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

— Shailene Woodley

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

— Mary E. Pearson

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

— Jack Ma

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

— Olivia Wilde

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.

— John Green

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

— David Mitchell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

— Jennifer Lawrence

I think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

— Nicholas Hoult

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

— John Knowles