Adults Quotes - Page 36

• I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Soul, Lovable

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• I was very fortunate to have learned the transforming power of music early in life. As an adult I want to share that power by inspiring people to care about their neighbors near and far. Being a UNICEF Ambassador allows me this kind of opportunity.

  India.Arie

  Power, Opportunity, People

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• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Achievement, Effort

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• No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Tree, Parent

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• People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch.

  Nick Harkaway

  Teacher, Sex, Children

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• The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

  K. Anders Ericsson

  Practice, Differences, Long

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• You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.

  Franck Ribery

  Strong, Children, Staring

  "Ribery: I'm proud of my scar as it gave me strength" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com.

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• The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.

  Ajaypal Singh Banga

  People, World, United States

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• Children who remember their past lives offer the most compelling evidence yet for reincarnation... when adults listen-really listen-to what the children are trying to say, their own understanding of spirit and of children are changed forever.

  Carol Bowman

  Children, Past, Forever

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• When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

  Polly Horvath

  Children, Jealous, Giving

  Polly Horvath (2003). “The Canning Season”, p.62, Macmillan

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• Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

  Susan Patron

  Cake, Wish, Needs

  Susan Patron, Matt Phelan (2009). “Lucky Breaks”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more like heaven as a result.

  Wess Stafford

  Safety, Heaven, World

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.159, WaterBrook

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• Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood.

  Cate Kennedy

  Believe, Kids, Childhood

  Cate Kennedy (2008). “Dark Roots: Stories”, p.18, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get "Okaaaaaay, honey." I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

  Kristen Bell

  Airplane, Car, Trying

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

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• Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously

  Jimmy Fallon

  Packs, Knows

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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

  Natalie Portman

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

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• It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want to degrade yourself.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Decision, Age

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

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• I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sex, Book, Eight

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• I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

  Mischa Barton

  Silly, Kids, Intelligent

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

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• In America, I get a lot of younger kids, but there's teens and adults too, ... In Europe, for some reason, I see a lot more males in the audience. In Japan, I don't even notice any kids, partially because they're a lot more strict about fan behavior over there.

  Avril Lavigne

  Kids, Japan, Europe

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• Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

  Quinn Cummings

  Hands, Years, Odds

  Quinn Cummings (2012). “The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling”, p.20, Penguin

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• I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Kids, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Children, Physicians, Needs

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• Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.

  Grant Morrison

  Running, Children, Real

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• The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life.

  Ted Haggard

  Liars, Responsibility, Dark

  "Haggard admits 'sexual immorality,' apologizes" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. November 5, 2006.

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