Adults Quotes - Page 10

• Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Children, Order, Punishment

  "Tristes Tropiques". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Chapter 38: "A Little Glass of Rum," pp. 388-389, 1955.

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• I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' they're OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That's not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.

  Jerry Lewis

  Children, Thinking, Cartoon

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• Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

  Christian Louboutin

  Mother, Memories, Years

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• There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

  George Lucas

  Kids, People, Building Things

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Identity, Married, Responsible

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• It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.

  Danielle Steel

  Mom, Challenges, Married

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• Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.

  Kristen Stewart

  School, Should Have, Done

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• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Cartoon, Grew Up, Grew

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• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Kids, Age, Sidekicks

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• The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

  Adora Svitak

  Thinking, Age, Addresses

  "12-year-old author: Don't say 'childish'" by John D. Sutter, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2010.

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• A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

  Adora Svitak

  Negative Words, Way, Helping

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• I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

  Taylor Swift

  Kids, Long, People

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• I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

  Clarence Thomas

  Wings, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Children, Shock, Hideous

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• Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Children, Kids, Curiosity

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• When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Hands

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

  David Walliams

  Children, Book, Literature

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mean, Doctors, Years

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• I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

  Emma Watson

  Daughter, Brother, Dad

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• Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.

  Andrew Weil

  Children, Cheese Sandwiches, People

  "Are You An Adult Picky Eater?" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

  Florence Welch

  Teenage, Cancer, Caring

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• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hypocrisy, Parent, World

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Icons, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

  George Will

  Race, Government, Years

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• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Father

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