Quotes with adult

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  • Aaron Eckhart I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I consider always the adult life to be the continuous retrieval of childhood.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Plympton I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Bill Hader If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bill Nye If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Campbell Brown In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Brad Delson In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Cameron Bright It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
    Cameron Bright
    Canadian actor (1993 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • George Orwell One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Alice Walker Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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