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“Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.”

Kids Pay Too Much Adults Wholesale

Author:Richard Louv

“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”

Children Facts Kids Grows Pay Laughing Growing Up Dangerous Humour Wind Adults Prison Scared Profession Silly Likes Chosen Funny Kid

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing a state of boredom that in turn gives rise to much of the stupidity and meanness that oftem seem to epitomize the human condtion. In fact, these ills merely signify that the dues we pay for adult respectability are far too high, and bring some 'benefits' of questionable value.”

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Author:D. Patrick Miller

“Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.”

Order Pay Adults Responsible Cartoonist

Author:David Rees

“If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.”

Ifs Care Kids House Pay Television Adults Take Care

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”

“I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.”

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Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Mean Enough Choices Pay Attention Exercise Conscious Adults Pay Attention Constructs Really Mean

Author:David Foster Wallace

“You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.”

“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar