Quotes with adult

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  • Bell Hooks Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Alice Miller Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Hershey That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Jean Kerr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Midge Decter The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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  • Brooke Shields The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Anne Cassidy The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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  • Candace Camp There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • C. S. Lewis 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
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Jean Rostand To be adult is to be alone.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Sigmund Freud We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a ''dark continent'' for psychology.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Barack Obama What Washington needs is adult supervision.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ann Patchett You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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