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The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
David Simon
Game
Change
Progress
Political
Joke
Everything
Soldiers
Cosmic
Rational
Adult
Foot
Leaders
Journalism
Instruments
Policy
Without
Makes
Becomes
Political Leaders
Affirmative
Very
Viable
Bureaucrats
Human
Useful
Human Progress
Why
Coherent
Suggestion
Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to play and to be more childlike in our behavior. We've forgotten what that childlike experience was like.
Guy Laliberte
Together
Experience
People
Remember
Behavior
Skin
Society
Our
Once
Way
Distinction
More
Color
Adult
Never
Never Forget
Along
Come
Like
Without
Were
Forget
Forgotten
Childlike
Where
Children
Skin Color
Play
Level
Playing
Need
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin
Government
Country
Other
Ninety
Percent
Adult
Lousy
Get
American
Decent
Eight
Them
Elected
Then
Publicity
Hardworking
Two
Honest
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
Margaret Heffernan
Cell Phone
Phone
Become
Sense
Object
Bear
Adult
Comfort
Replacing
Cell
Transitional
Toddler
Belonging
Teddy
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
Today
Problems
Tomorrow
Our
Solution
Adult
How
Up
Depends
Children
Measure
Large
Large Measure
Grow
Grow Up
I think people always want candy, whether you're a kid or an adult.
Dylan Lauren
You
People
Think
Kid
Adult
Always
Candy
Want
Whether
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
Funny
Revenge
World
Halloween
Nothing
About
Rather
Adult
Demand
Festival
Reflects
Infernal
Children
Sarcastic
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
Marilyn Manson
Entertainment
Our
Entertaining
Adult
Children
Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
Matt Haig
Love
Death
Nature
Writing
Fear
Sex
Teenager
Teenagers
Philosophical
Out
Kinds
Seek
About
Adult
Stuff
Open-Minded
Like
Most
Readers
Curious
Intense
Listen
Bravest
Being
Being A Teenager
Which
Them
Many
Why
Things
Watch
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
World
Kids
Born
About
Adult
Primarily
Thwart
Curiosity
Curious
Children
Presence
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
Childish
Philosophers
Adult
Questions
Persist
Asking
Who
To be adult is to be alone.
Jean Rostand
Alone
Adult
I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
Jennifer McMahon
Me
You
Heart
World
Impossible
Wind
Trees
Meets
Way
Eye
Easy
Easy Way
Followed
Spirits
Magical
Something
More
Adult
Lead
Had
Raven
Spoke
Sure
Were
Forest
Than
Toad
Then
Deep
Believed
I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part and discuss it only with consenting adults.
Molly Ivins
Love
Harmless
State
Consider
Only
Adult
Part
Dearly
Texas
Discuss
Perversion
Consenting
I think that inside every adult is the heart of a child. We just gradually convince ourselves that we have to act more like adults.
Shigeru Miyamoto
Heart
Every
Think
Ourselves
Inside
More
Adult
Like
Child
Gradually
Just
Convince
Act
To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.
Amy Bloom
Happiness
World
Will
Understanding
Fall
Our
Pleasure
Sun
Faces
Adult
Knowing
Passes
Mockery
Forever
Any
Dies
Hold
Cannot
Us
Petals
Keep
Fashionable
Away
Amount
Last
Beloved
Save
Once upon a time, soft toys were for babies. Now they're taken for granted as a feature of adult life.
Brian Sutton-Smith
Life
Time
Babies
Once
Feature
Adult
Adult Life
Taken
Taken For Granted
Toys
Were
Granted
Now
Soft
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
Bruce Springsteen
Life
Music
Live
Enormous
Settle
Mystery
Adult
Adult Life
Advocate
Dealing
Answers
Questions
Deny
Just
Anything
Amount
When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.
Dan Jenkins
Home
You
Vote
People
Old
College
Young
Painting
Too
Enough
Stately
All People
Adult
Look
Until
Cheerleaders
Limp
Wall
Closely
Yorkshire
Hanging
Old Enough
Your
England
Resemble
Appears
I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
Edward Snowden
Life
Adult
Adult Life
Almost
Almost All
Like
Spotlight
Been
Spy
Being
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of children and two thirds of adults are overweight or obese and are more likely to develop diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Ellen Gustafson
Health
Food
Diabetes
Value
Our
Nutritional
Obese
One-Third
More
Havoc
Adult
Develop
Cheap
Abundance
Likely
Western
Overweight
America
Disease
Diet
Children
Low
Cardiovascular
Two
Third
Two-Thirds
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
Erik Erikson
Mind
Will
Follower
Leader
Sense
Every
Once
Member
Triumphs
Small
Adult
He
Mass
His
Child
Whether
Against
Forms
Measured
Defeats
Elite
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
Experience
Has-Been
Must
Take
Adult
Mere
Term
Issue
Been
Child
Infinitely
Preferable
Company
Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they 'chat someone up'? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerer's biggest challenge.
Gareth Gates
Work
Hard Work
Phone
Challenge
Job
Young
Living
Interviews
Rings
Someone
Chat
Adult
Takes
Stutter
How
Prove
Up
Handle
Person
Young Adults
Biggest
Biggest Challenge
Average
Average Person
Granted
Hard
Things
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George Orwell
Age
Feelings
Seven
Seems
Adult
True
Instinctive
Eight
Your
Expose
It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
Kenneth Lonergan
Character
Become
Adult
Flaw
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