Adults Quotes - Page 29

• The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Space, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

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• I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Thinking, Space

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• Behind every person who’s committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence.

  Gong Ji-young

  Children, Violence, Way

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• It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Letting Go, Children, Writing

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• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  Justin Timberlake

  Book, Black And White, Self

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• College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.

  Anne Hathaway

  Unique, College, Thinking

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

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• I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

  Natalie Portman

  Teenager, Play, Next

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• With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig.

  Richard Dawkins

  Pigs, Abortion, Fetus

  Richard Dawkins‏ @RichardDawkins, twitter.com. March 13, 2013.

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• It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Location

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Mother, Wind, Careers

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• Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

  Bill Nye

  Running, Believe, Keys

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• Right from the start my parents had left me to fend for myself. Apparently unaware that I was a kid, they invariably treated me like an adult, perhaps because they themselves were no spring chickens.

  Phyllis Diller

  Spring, Kids, Parent

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.15, Penguin

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• Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.

  Sharon Stone

  Kids, School, Thinking

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• I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

  Andy Rooney

  Summer, Children, Father

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• I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

  Willie Aames

  Children, Would Be, Ministry

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• I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

  Aly Michalka

  Sexy, Immature, Needs

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• Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

  Anna Paquin

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

  Cheryl Hines

  Littles, Loud, Animation

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• I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Children, Careers, Actresses

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

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• It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

  Clancy Brown

  Father, Son, Frustration

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

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• A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

  Ricky Gervais

  Christian, Atheist, Children

  Twitter post from May 2, 2013

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• Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this is a nice neighborhood!

  Triple H

  Nice, Men, Vegas

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• I never considered myself part of rock 'n' roll. My stuff was more adult. It was more difficult for teenagers to relate to; my stuff was filled with more despair than anything you'd associate with rock 'n' roll. Since I couldn't see people dancing, I didn't write jitterbugs or twists. I wrote rhythms that moved me. My style requires pure heart singing.

  Ray Charles

  Teenager, Writing, Heart

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

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• I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Thinking, Historical, Violence

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• I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

  Miley Cyrus

  Kids, Acting, Supposed To Be

  "Arrogant much? Miley Cyrus says she's 'taking over the world", www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2013.

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