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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things.
All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.
Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.
Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.
The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.
If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.
I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.
Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.
Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.
The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
Puppies and kids naturally go together, but it's up to the adults to teach them how to do it the right way.
It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.
What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?
My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
Yeah, and by the way? How much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and not if I want a beer?
I love music. But I've never owned a TV in my adult life, and I've never lived in a place with a television.
Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?
I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film.
It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.
Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.
Kids keep getting wiser younger, which is dangerous, and adults need to stop taking themselves too seriously.
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.
I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
I am grateful to be able to participate in the adult citation program where I will complete community service.
I am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
It's easier to see children as mini adults than it is to imagine or to remember what it is to be a child again.
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.
I wish for myself as an adult that I cared less what people thought of me, especially people who don't know me.