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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
Zooey Deschanel
Girl
Would
Would-Be
Guy
Having
Through
Adult
Had
Importance
Period
Female
Go
Male
Lot
Friends
Did
Where
Mean
Found
I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
Kate O'Mara
Life
Health
Strict
Virtually
Adopt
Adult
Adult Life
Vegetarian
Been
Very
Regime
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
Xavier Becerra
Time
Decision
Parents
Drinking
First
Alcohol
Other
Kids
Critical
About
Faced
Adult
Advance
Underage
Well
First Time
Trusted
Regarding
Conversations
Initiate
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
Xavier Becerra
Diabetes
Latino
Adult
Had
Diagnosed
Been
Million
Two
I’m a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I’m looking for box sets that I can put on my computer to pass the time on train journeys. I have far too much free time for an adult.
Nish Kumar
Time
Too Much
Free
Looking
Sets
Too
I Can
Computer
Adult
Free Time
Touring
Put
Journeys
Comedian
Box
Pass
Lot
Train
Far
Much
Standup
From a small child to right now - I mean, when I was five years old, Red Norville, Tal Farlow, Charles Mingus, Les Paul, Mary Ford, people like that were coming over to my house. So I was around professional adult mature musicians who had had big careers.
Steve Miller
Musicians
People
Old
Big
Charles
Small
Small Child
Mary
Adult
Had
Red
Over
Like
House
Ford
Around
Coming
Were
Years
Five
Mature
Child
Mean
Paul
Les
Who
Professional
Now
Right
Careers
Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and I always had that in mind.
Steve Miller
Musicians
Mind
Entire
Entire Lives
Adult
Had
Around
Always
Up
Wanted
Who
Growing
Growing Up
Lives
Played
I was living and working with adult men who were playing a real art form. And I had been playing blues all my life. As soon as I formed my first band, we played Jimmy Reed stuff. So it wasn't like I was a white kid who was learning the blues from B.B. King records.
Steve Miller
Life
Art
Learning
King
Men
My Life
First
Band
White
Living
Jimmy
Kid
All My Life
Records
Adult
Had
Soon
Stuff
Like
Real
Reed
Were
Been
Art Form
Blues
Form
Formed
Working
Who
Played
Playing
Kids can still call me Shaq, but adults should call me Dr. O'Neal.
Shaquille O'Neal
Me
Kids
Adult
Call
Still
Should
Dr
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Salman Rushdie
Life
Myself
Day
Sit
Several
Would
Adult
Adult Life
Hours
Get
Antsy
Room
As an adult I wasn't dying to participate in sci-fi projects.
Malik Yoba
Projects
Adult
Participate
Sci-Fi
Dying
In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.
Audrey Tautou
Family
You
Will
Pressure
Bourgeoisie
Young
Sense
Marry
Adult
Environments
Because
Within
Still
Young Adults
Certain
Choose
Milieu
Lives
I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.
Ari Lennox
Life
Together
Experience
Try
My Life
Fire
Ocean
Lyrics
Frank
Melodies
Ways
Marry
Similar
Beat
Take
Adult
Songs
Like
Always
His
Going
Just
Paint
Paints
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Life
Liberty
Christian
World-Class
Spent
Entire
Adult
Adult Life
Envisioned
Make
Trying
Founding
University
By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.
Layla Moran
Key
Sectors
Colleges
Throughout
Adult
Allowing
Learners
Provide
Expertise
Many
Careers
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
Bill O'Reilly
Depression
Great
Father
Parents
Saw
Great Depression
Neighborhood
Brooklyn
Scarred
1930s
Adult
New
Were
His
Lines
Begging
York
New York
Children
So-Called
Bread
Them
Standing
Who
Streets
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
Alex Hirsch
Remember
Way
Kid
I Remember
Scared
More
Adult
Go
Bump
Being
Being Scared
Things
Night
Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.
Jeff Bridges
Work
Together
Made
Films
Way
Parent
Similar
Only
Adult
Like
Blown
Blown Away
Tucker
So Much Fun
Much
Working
Your
Fun
Dad
Away
Play
Gas
Two
A guy like James Brown has walked the walk, talked the talk. I can't disrespect James Brown in any kind of way. In my household, the adults tell you where to get off at.
Eric B.
You
Walk
Disrespect
Way
Tell
Kind
Brown
Guy
Adult
Like
Talk
Household
Talked
Off
Walked
Get
Any
Where
James
James Brown
At 14 I had no choice but to live with my brother, on our own, without adults, with all the responsibilities, decisions and day-to-day practicalities of living independently. I had, though, the joy of earning my own money.
Gina Miller
Joy
Money
Own
Live
Living
Earning
Our
Though
Responsibilities
Independently
No Choice
Brother
My Own
Adult
Had
Day-To-Day
Without
Decisions
Choice
I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor Swift
Me
People
Seriously
Some People
Long
Complain
Way
Kid
See
Seeing
Some
Sees
Adult
Concerned
How
Going
Anybody
Certain
Certain Way
As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.
George Monbiot
Animal
Plant
Young
Wild
Able
Delighted
Adult
Almost
Identify
Child
Any
Young Adult
Being
That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.
Jose Jose
Me
Teenager
Status
Dinosaur
Adult
Contemporary
Either
Nearly
Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.
Dolores O'Riordan
Good
Me
Women
Strict
Pressure
Looking
Looking Back
Down
Too
Back
Wear
Adult
Allow
Good-Looking
She
Becoming
Lot
Up
Very
Quickly
Growing
Growing Up
Mum
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
Thoughts
Sometimes
Thought
Sense
Think
Universe
Everything
About
Adult
Make
Around
Integrate
Child
Children
Order
Them
I definitely wanted to be a woman and be treated as an adult, I wasn’t interested in being young at all.
Jessica Barden
Woman
Young
Definitely
Adult
Being
Wanted
Interested
Treated
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