Adults Quotes
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It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.
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Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
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I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
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Being an adult is the ability to postpone a want for the sake of a family need.
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All children are curious, I think, but not all adults are.
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With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.
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We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive.
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People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself.
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You see, the thing with adults is that respect is just a word they use to guilt us nonadults into doing what they want us to do.
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Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.
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When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.
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Sophie is asking mum ‘Why am I NOT a doll NOT an adult NOT a boy NOT a giraffe?’ It’s so easy to miss all we are when we focus on what we are not!
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I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.
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Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.
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Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
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The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning. In films for adults, there are no ways to change things. What happened, happened.
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I think people discredit teenagers and how wise they can be. Sometimes I meet teenagers who are much wiser than many adults I've met, because they haven't let any insecurities or doubts about themselves get in the way of their thoughts.
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Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.
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More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.
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I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.
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I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
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Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.
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Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
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I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
