Juvenile Quotes - Page 5

• I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."

  Charles Busch

  Cute, Princess, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Divorce, Ideas

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• The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.4541, Delphi Classics

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• Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Eye, Angel

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

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• I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

  Adam Rapp

  School, Community, Support

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• My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

  Hill Harper

  Brother, Book, Reading

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• I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative

  David Cross

  Weed, Thinking, Smoking

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• It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

  Bill McCollum

  Gun, Law, Matter

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• One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, Boxing

  "Tyson: 'My Whole Life Has Been a Waste'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 02, 2005.

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• If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Entrepreneur, Anxiety, Psychology

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• We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.

  Pope Francis

  Would Be

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• I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot, and I bought 30 cars. And I need to drive those cars, and New York isn't really the place you can do that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

  Andrew Rannells

  Men, People, Laughing

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• I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

  Jaden Smith

  Philosophy, Consciousness, Speak

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2013

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• I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Real, Responsibility

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• I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Hey, Levels, Genies

  "Kazaam/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.

  Gail Carriger

  Fashion, Ships, Sides

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• They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile delinquents.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Cells, White

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Flight: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

  Maggie Shayne

  Men, Feelings, Imagine

  Maggie Shayne (2016). “Colder Than Ice”, p.56, MIRA

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• I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.

  Lewis Thomas

  Children, Real, Errors

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• A clever enemy would kiss my hand, then stab at my back while I was distracted. (Stryker) A coward’s action. Truly. Don’t insult either one of us with such a suggestion. I don’t believe in petty juvenile attacks. I go after what I want, and when it’s the life of an enemy I don’t want there to be any mistaking my intention. If you’re worth my hatred, then you’re worth my letting you know that I’m coming for you. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Clever, Believe, Kissing

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• My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

  Lisa Lutz

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Lisa Lutz (2011). “Lisa Lutz Spellman Series E-Book Box Set: The Spellman Files, Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellmans Strike Again”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

  Taylor Swift

  Guy, Sound, Want

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• Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Witty, Rabbits, Drs

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• I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

  John Waters

  Parent, Let Me, Wanted

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