Top 36 Quotes About Yuppies
#1. Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Denis Diderot
#2. Every man needs a place to be open and vulnerable with brothers leaning together upon the Lord.
James MacDonald
#3. 'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.
Lloyd Kaufman
#4. The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.
Jean Baudrillard
#5. Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
William Deresiewicz
#6. Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
Ian Anthony Dale
#7. Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?
Frank Zappa
#8. [S]he's a yuppie libtard, ya know? She's just going to fund things to help animals and weird people. I don't like that kind of shit.
Brad McKinniss
#9. They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.
Lauren Groff
#10. Whilst stupidity may indeed be a sin, it is also possible to be too clever. I sometimes fear, John, that you are too clever by half.
Sharon Kay Penman
#11. Killer yuppies in a soccer-mom car. It did have that certain je ne said quois.
J. Fally
#12. The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.
Edward Albee
#13. I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
John Zorn
#14. A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
Damien Rice
#15. The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs
Barbara Ehrenreich
#17. If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin Cruz Smith
#18. There is no end to the story. Isn't it amazing that something is really, really important one moment, and then minutes later it has lost all importance? What happened? It seems like it's gone away. It's been diffused. Amazing.
Art Hochberg
#19. Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.
William Kristol
#20. I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.
Hope Edelman
#21. A Yuppie is someone who believes it's courageous to eat in a restaurant that hasn't been reviewed yet.
Mort Sahl
#22. I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.
Frank Zappa
#23. We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we're never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything
Caroline Kepnes
#24. Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
Lindy West
#25. The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
Waylon Jennings
#26. The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.
Alfred Adler
#27. And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect. ...
Ned Vizzini
#28. My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.
Tom Petty
#29. I can't wait for the day when we'll never have to say 'goodbye' to each other again.
Stephen Douglass
#30. But no, Sir, to answer your question. I'm taken, and I have been since I was sixteen, Will confessed
Laura Miller
#31. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....
J. Fally
#32. Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
Abel Ferrara
#33. Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
Wayne Thiebaud
#34. You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
Julian Casablancas
#35. hipsters are basically yuppies with tighter pants and bigger glasses.
Daniel Jose Older
#36. Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
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