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Any mature, responsible adult doesn't run around stomping their feet and screaming 'I'm a mature, responsible, adult.'
Debby Ryan
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Film Actress
Running
Adults
Feet
Mature
Adult
Screaming
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The trouble with government regulation of the market is that it prohibits capitalistic acts between consenting adults.
Robert Nozick
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Philosopher
Government
Adults
Regulation
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We commonly see problems in adults that had been present since childhood but which take a toll on the heart over time.
Gary Webb
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Reporter
Adults
Childhood
Heart
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Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
Roger Ebert
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Film Critic
Adults
Sex
Teenager
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In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
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Pathologist
Adults
May
Nerves
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Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.
Paul Feig
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Actor
Kids
Adults
Forty
Lines
Pretend
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis
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Novelist
Birthday
Smile
Age
Adults
Strange
Talking
Thirty
Walking
I Am Me Walking
Adult
Now
Age I Am Me
Age Me I Am
Fact
Terms
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English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.
Germaine Greer
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Journalist
Adults
Children
Lessons
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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
Ann Brashares
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Film Writer
Teen
Adults
Book
Distinction
Sophisticated
Young Adult
Blurred
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We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
David Lynch
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Film Director
Imagination
Adults
Thinking
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
Susan Olsen
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Actress
Kids
Adults
Plans
Tree
Adult
Barking
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But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
Kathleen Norris
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Poet
Adults
Order
Taught
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
Margaret Halsey
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Writer
Adults
Degrees
Envy
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Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
Cornelia Funke
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Author
Adults
Butterfly
Children
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Because time moves more slowly in Kid World ... it goes on for decades ... It is adult life that is over in a twinkling.
Bill Bryson
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Author
Kids
Adults
Moving
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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.
George W. S. Trow
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Essayist
Men
Adults
Competence
Most Powerful
Powerful
Agreements
Childish
Effectively
Enforce
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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Mignon Mclaughlin
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Journalist
Adults
Children
Natural
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Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.
John Irving
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Novelist
Adults
Ambition
Childhood
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In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Author
Adults
Book
Children
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I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.
Sheila Heti
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Writer
Adults
Individual
People
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Grow up, Donald Trump. Grow up. Time to be an adult. You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have.
Joe Biden
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Vice President Of The United States
Adults
Growing Up
President
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The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.
Carl Rogers
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Psychologist
Learning
Adults
Purpose
Teaching
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I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
Stephen King
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Author
Men
Adults
Writing
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Former United States Senator
Adults
Children
United States
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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
Neil Gaiman
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Author
Adults
Children
Stories
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I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.
Michelle Rodriguez
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Actress
Adults
Long
Taken
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I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
Martha Wainwright
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Singer-Songwriter
Adults
Died
Kind
Mother
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The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
John Cheever
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Novelist
Adults
Culture
Disappointment
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The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Douglas Kennedy
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Novelist
Adults
Forgiving
Parent
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Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
Carl Zimmer
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Science Writer
Adults
People
Population
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If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.
Dennis Bakke
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Chief Executive
Adults
Children
People
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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
Patton Oswalt
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Comedian
Actors
Adults
Reassuring
Way
Young Adult
Great Me Doing
Confirmed
Suspicions
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The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.
Helen Clark Macinnes
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Author
Adults
Discovery
World
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.
Jack Kevorkian
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Pathologist
Adults
Authority
Blanket
Court
People
Supreme
Supreme Court
Thinking
Adult
All People
Declare
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
Franz Wright
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Poet
Adults
Eye
Looks
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Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
Jonathan Lethem
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Novelist
Adults
Teenage
Want
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe
Alice Hoffman
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Novelist
Kids
Adults
Happenings
Knows
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The first aim of the prepared environment is, as far as it is possible, to render the growing child independent of the adult.
Maria Montessori
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Physician
Adults
Children
Independent
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
Rick Yancey
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Novelist
Design
Adults
Care
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When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.
Simon Pegg
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Actor
Adults
Students
Want
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If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.
Rob Delaney
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Comedian
Adults
Opinion
Pants
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He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.
Richelle Mead
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Author
Adults
My Boyfriend
Needs
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We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
R. S. Thomas
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Poet
Adults
Hands
World
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
Barbara Walters
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Journalist
Adults
Children
Party
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I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them
Maurice Sendak
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Illustrator
Adults
Childhood
Scare
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Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
Robert Jay Lifton
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Psychiatrist
Time
Adults
Weapons
World
Adult
He Or She
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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Nikki Sixx
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Musician
Adults
Authority
Resentment
Teenager
Trying
Young Adult
Adult
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.
Philip Pullman
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Film Writer
Adults
Book
Children
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I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.
Robert Wyatt
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Musician
Adults
Going Away
Want
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The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Writer
Adults
Children
Way
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