Quotes with adolescent

  • There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

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  • Agnes Smedley Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Wendy Cope I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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  • Carol Lynley It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
    Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972
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  • Raymond Chandler The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Anita Diamant There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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