Juvenile Quotes - Page 2

• At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Humour

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• I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Giving, Style

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• Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

  Elijah Cummings

  Children, Years, Childhood

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• I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Angel, Rising

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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• The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

  Paul Mazursky

  Careers, Acting, Trying

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• But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day.

  Dan Lipinski

  Cells, Blood, Great Day

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• Our faith should be expressed in working toward a better planet for our children and not the selfish, juvenile hope for a better afterlife for ourselves. I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

  Greg Graffin

  Children, Selfish, Thinking

  "Punk Rockers Knock Christmas". townhall.com. December 20, 2013.

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• I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

  Numbers, Opinion, Film

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• Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

  John Updike

  Information

  John Updike's speech at the Book Expo America's "Saturday Book & Author Breakfast", May 26, 2006.

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• Badass is a juvenile aspiration.

  Gabrielle Hamilton

  Badass, Aspiration

  Gabrielle Hamilton (2011). “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef”, p.195, Random House

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• If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile.

  Maureen Dowd

  Wisdom, Sophisticated, Form

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• It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe. But it's a very juvenile approach. It also became a weird signal for comedy, in the sense that when you heard the song, it meant comedy was happening on screen. I feel like this song was probably done in a couple of minutes in a studio.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Couple, Doe

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello's "Oh Yeah" reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

  Arthur Koestler

  Society, Adults, Groups

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.

  Al Feldstein

  Baby, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Style, Immaturity

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• The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig...The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Definitely with the fit of clothing - how it really depends on mere centimeters and millimeters of difference in terms of how lengths can make such a big impact on your shape. I learned how to incorporate a cute peter pan collar on a dress and not make it look juvenile.

  Lily Collins

  Cute, Differences, Impact

  "Lily Collins on Her Glamorous New Look for 'The Last Tycoon'". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Struggle, Autism, Diabetes

  "CBB Talks to Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kodjoe". CBB Interview, celebritybabies.people.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.

  Zig Ziglar

  Insecure, Reality, People

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• I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Rude, Sound

  "Colum McCann: a life in writing" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

  Walter Dean Myers

  People, Our Society, Able

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• Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.

  Saint Augustine

  Dark, Night, Pigs

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• The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  People, Motorcycle, Young

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• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Texas

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• I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

  Elton John

  Class, Glasses, Alcohol

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