Fred Durst Quotes

I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

When we are older we are very smart, but when we are younger we don't think we are happy, we have all of life ahead of us.

I used to write about experiences that a 20-year-old would write about - going out with your friends, having a drink. You know, things were a little bit sexier in a different way. Now, you know, I'm a mom, and I want to filter some of the things that I say.

I don't really read the papers.

I have been tamed. My party days are well and truly behind me.

Whenever journalism students ask me what they should be doing, I say that if you're on social media, you should be following a ton of people that you don't necessarily agree with just to get their perspectives.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

You obviously have a different perspective on life when you're 20 compared to when you're 16.

Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

Aren’t you a little old for your mom to be picking out your clothes for you? Really? Shopping at the Children’s Place at your age? I’m sure there’s some third-grader dying to know who bought the last navy I-sore shirt. (Nekoda)

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

I don't see what the point is in growing up.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.