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“If you were a freak as a kid, you're an interesting adult.”

“Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.”

Ifs Years Children Matter Unique Adults Deny Germany Suspicion Accused

Author:Christian Schwochow

“In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.”

Ifs Ends Shows Honesty Amount Understood Adults Enormous Love And Honesty

Author:Tom Ford

“I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.”

Ifs Children Eye Realizing Capable Adults Convinced

Author:Roselyne Bosch

“I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.”

Ifs Enough Stories Happens Kids Age Adults Always Believe

Author:John Irving

“At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!”

People Ifs Children Two Whole Facts Life Is Certain Christ Half Adults Opposites Meetings Saved Whole Life

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.”

Ifs Children Matter Speak Community Memories Existence Class Doors Middle Adults Concern Middle Class Chicago Potatoes Starving Poignant Niceties

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!”

Ifs Men Want Voice Adults Raises

Author:Jean Giraudoux

“I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved.”

Ifs Years Two Different Wanted Young Values Easy Difficult Interesting Adults Young Adult Communicate Saved Lifestyle Transition Initials Different Lifestyles

Author:Kelly Clark

“If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.”

Ifs Knows Want Stills Problem Young Know How Adults Raises Young Adult Solve

Book:The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

Source: The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers

“Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.”

Ifs Children Long I Can Play Can Do Benefits Long Time Adults Inspired Legacy I Can Do It Meadowlarks

Author:Robert Parish

“I think camping is one of those things where if you're forced into it as a child, you'll probably hate it as an adult.”

Ifs Thinking Children Hate Adults Camping

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about yourself. I came out of school to film it, and I hadn't been having a good time in school before that. I get quite shy around big groups of people. If I meet people, especially my peers and people my own age, I always struggle because I've always worked with adults and they have a tendency to molly coddle you a bit when you're the youngest on-set.”

People Ifs Bigs Age School Film Bits My Own Struggle Groups Adults Tendencies Good Times Shy Where You Are About Yourself Peers Having A Good Time

Author:Yasmin Paige

“Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.”

Ifs Sex Goal Birth Adults Hollywood Pregnancy Wedlock Teen Pregnancy

Author:Joe Lieberman

“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.”

“Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.”

Ifs World Should Children Made Two Kids Film Fighting Evil Darkness Strange Scene Creatures Adults Scary Monsters Forests Dawn Villain Naps Curls Benign Darkness Before The Dawn

Author:Roger Ebert

“If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth”

Ifs Want Writing Children Stills Book Difficult Security Havens Revolution Adults Myth Familiar Vocabulary Children Book Fear Of The Unknown

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.”

Ifs Should Stories Kids Order Evil Adults Scary Triumph Scare No Point

Author:Neil Gaiman

“How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.”

Ifs Knows Mind Children Interesting Adults Something New

Author:Jean Piaget

“If you never allow your children to exceed what they can do, how are they ever going to manage adult life - where a lot of it is managing more than you thought you could manage?”

Ifs Children Can Do Adults Our Children Manage Your Children Exceed

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.”

“If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.”

Ifs Democracy Trouble Adults Constitution Relation Privacy American Democracy Right To Privacy

Author:Coretta Scott King

“I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.”

Ifs I Can Can Do Accepting Heard Expression Adults Call Me

Author:Elvis Presley

“What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Made Adults Complexes Mysterious Realization Cells

Author:Dean Koontz

“This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never learned. I think those fears also reflect a failure to communicate. Parents should be able to say to their kids: "There is stuff out there that we don't look at, and if you find yourself looking at it or someone approaching you about it, then let's talk about it."”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Kids Able Stuff Parent Adults Independent Communicate Deeper Finding Yourself Frenzy

Author:Seymour Papert

“Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.”

Ifs Writing Book Reason Written Fields Adults Consequence

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Humans Ends Self Dream Human Beings Technology Self Esteem Adults Sight Busy Esteem High Self Esteem

Author:Virginia Satir

“I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that some people - usually from those rare "normal" families that I longed for as a child and as an adult wonder if they even exist - didn't understand this and sort of looked down their noses at people suffering with addiction.”

People Ifs Way Children Young Suffering Wonder Boys Normal Adults Profound Addiction Noses Alcoholism Normal Family

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.”

Ifs Way Should Self Problem Wish My Own Opinion Adults Teenager Idiot Teenage

Author:Emma Forrest

“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.”

People Ifs Knows Ideas Hate Games Realizing Boys Like You Band Picks Adults Hunger Mail One Direction Boy Bands Hate Mail

Author:Joel Stein

“I love my job so much. I thought, what a cool way for kids to learn, via assignment, via reporting. I learn so much as an adult going around and covering these stories. How fun it would be to do it via a storybook app and cartoon characters. My daughter can work on an iPhone and iPad like crazy. That's their world. If you can use that, use it educationally.”

Ifs World Way Character Stories Use Would Be Kids Jobs Fun Crazy Daughter Adults My Daughter Cartoon Covering Iphone Assignments Apps Ipads Cartoon Character

Author:Nancy O'Dell

“You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.”

Ifs Humans Reason Feelings Lines Draws Adults Boundaries Sensible Irrational Marvelous Rationale

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“So when you go to sleep at night, if you're someone who hasn't had any sleep deprivation, you have a very normal sleep pattern, what we tend to see is that, in adults, they go to bed and they start off by going into the deeper stages sleep.”

Ifs Night Sleep Stage Bed Normal Adults Patterns Deeper Going To Sleep Deprivation Sleep Deprivation

Author:Shelby Harris

“Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.”

Ifs Might Happens Night Anxiety Happenings Adults Stress Terror Psychological Thorough Evaluation Night Terrors Anxiety Depression

Author:Shelby Harris

“This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.”

Ifs Use Comedy Adults Roots

Author:Brian Henson

“It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Kind Stills Wanted Lasts Young Girl Decision Happened Honest Mets Adults Cameras Scary Eight Introducing Associates

Author:Jamie Lynn Spears

“High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult, you're going to have to make some really intense decisions. It's a really pivotal time to have as much self-confidence as you possibly can. Even if that means you have one friend who supports you completely.”

Ifs Mean Self Kids School Decision Support Strange High School Adults Self Confidence Intense Support You Pivotal One Friend Strange Times

Author:Tyler Blackburn

“If humanity doesn't destroy the planet first, which is always a possibility because as Spirit threw itself out there, that included free will. So, if we don't blow ourselves up first, soul will become as common of a mature development in adults as mind currently is and, eventually, Spirit will become the common experience for humanity.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Soul Spirit Humanity Common Possibility Planets Development Adults Blow Free Will Mature Common Experience

Author:Ken Wilber

“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.”

Ifs World Children Real Hands Energy Imagination Emotion Objects Produce Materials Shapes Mass Adults Abstract Representatives Clay Lumps Raw Materials Wholesale Something Real Semiotics

Author:Keith Murray

“When people contact me on Instagram or Facebook, kids and adults, who say, "You're an inspiration. You make me want to work hard to achieve my goals." If I can still do that after I retire that makes me feel good.”

People Ifs Want Feels Stills I Can Hard Inspiration Kids Goal Achieve Hard Work Adults Feel Good Contact Retiring Instagram

Author:Usain Bolt

“I touch on sex in my stand-up and it's funny, because when I talk about sex from an adult point of view, people cringe. But if I talk about war or killing, people laugh. So it's sick. It's really demented.”

People Ifs War Sex Views Laughing Adults Sick Killing Point Of View Cringe Demented

Author:Tracy Morgan

“Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.”

Ifs Stills Secret Adults Following Scandal

Author:Sara Shepard

“For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of a producer, he or she would know that the majority of moviegoers would rather listen to Prince. Since they are in the business of making money, no one can blame them. But if it ever came to the decision of making a film like that I'd say, "No." They are very easy films to make, though. In Purple Rain there is nothing complex about the way that they dance. Or sing. It would be a bit boring for an adult to make that film. It just wouldn't test their métier.”

Ifs Knows Way Would Be Film Easy Bits Sound Decision Adults Rain Tests Blame Majority Complexes Boring Ridiculous Producers Making Money Desks Purple Analogies Sound Of Music Purple Rain

Author:Gene Kelly

“Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.”

Ifs Two Different Home Adults Separation

Author:Carolyn Hax

“Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.”

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Now with digital, we have much better projection, and if the theaters are charging higher prices but providing refreshments and a clean, well-lit theater, there's no reason why this cannot go on as a senior-citizen-driven business for years. Especially with movies for adults.”

Ifs Years Wells Reason Goes On Higher Citizens Adults Theater Clean Driven Reason Why Digital No Reason Providing Senior Lit Projection Charging Senior Citizen Refreshments

Author:Oliver Stone

“It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke.”

People Ifs Knows Trying Persons Reason Shows Talking Comedy Stupid Ready Happenings Jokes Sitting Adults Climate Lazy Say Anything Blogs Clicks Laptops Bait Very Stupid Comedy Shows Stupid Jokes

Author:Bill Burr

“All employees... deserve to be treated as responsible adults, if that is the behavior we expect of them.”

Ifs Behavior Adults Deserve Responsible Treated Employee Supervision

Author:Eric Harvey

“The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.”

Ifs Kids Attitude Watches Five Policy Adults Resources Vote Population Agency Target

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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