Juvenile Quotes - Page 3

• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.

  Elvis Presley

  Mother, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Interview quoting in "Pop Chronicles", "Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1", 1956.

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• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Weight, Death Penalty, Opinion

  United States Supreme Court, Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, (2005), No. 03-633, IV, caselaw.findlaw.com. March 1, 2005.

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• I said what I felt, and people try to control people. But you can never control me. I'm a 31-year-old juvenile delinquent. Nobody can control me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Years, People

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• My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Entrepreneur, Want, Way

  "Yvon Chouinard on Entrepreneurship". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.

  Alison Lurie

  Fun, Views, Ideas

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• I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.

  Yukmouth

  Artist, Years, Careers

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• Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Evil, Special, Adults

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• In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, Looks, Ifs

  "A fiery dissenter rethinks her views". Interview with Tunku Varadarajan, nytlive.nytimes.com. March 25, 2015.

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• [Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

  Hilary Mantel

  Males, Voters, Should

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Bobby Scott

  Fighting, Second Chance, Years

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• My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Running, Country

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• I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Home, Names

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• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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• My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.

  Steve Olson

  Art, Self, Giving

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• There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Children, America, Parent

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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• An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

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• Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

  Tom DeLay

  Inspiring, Mother, Teaching

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• Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Growing Up, Littles, Grows

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• As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

  Lewis Thomas

  Years, Covering, Earth

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tattoo, Girlfriend, Smart

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.28, Penguin

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• In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

  Gregory S. Paul

  Pregnancy, Abortion, Religion

  "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies". moses.creighton.edu. 2005.

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• Until the image of the black man in the mind of the black man has been changed, there will always be delinquency, parental and juvenile. The idea is not to change the attitude of the white man to the black man but to change the attitude of the black man to himself.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Men, Ideas

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