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You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Christopher Meloni
You
Yourself
Have Fun
Childish
Having
Having Fun
Without
Always
Am
Child
Being
Childlike
Wants
Ask
Fun
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
Brian Baumgartner
Life
Sometimes
Enjoy Life
Enthusiasm
Childish
Enjoy
Pleasure
Times
Get
Childlike
Certainly
Things
Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
Abraham Maslow
Time
You
Man
Frustration
Hatred
Childish
Hell
Way
Out
Be A Man
Riot
Rioting
Rise
Takes
Accept
Trying
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin
Childish
Philosophers
Adult
Questions
Persist
Asking
Who
Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
Jean Piaget
Ego
Childish
Environment
Between
Essence
Inability
Social
Differentiate
Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.
Mehdi Hasan
Childish
Minds
Immature
Hallmark
Difference
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
Religion
Ignorance
Childish
Count
Sin
Toy
Hold
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn
Time
You
Yourself
Pretending
Childish
Nice
Else
Someone
Selling
Same
Same Time
Acting
Profession
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music
Art
Great
Soul
Song
Key
Will
Childish
Great Art
Changing
Guess
Must
Able
Vary
Attain
Simply
Know
Piece
Attraction
Learn
Read
How
Up
Interest
Might
Then
Teaching
Keep
Suggest
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst
You
Childish
Cost
Superstition
Foolish
Knock
Primitive
Does
How
How Much
Irrational
Wood
Much
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
Kate Greenaway
Beautiful
Me
Remember
Most Beautiful
Feeling
Big
Childish
Living
Everything
Something
More
Beyond
Most
Well
Always
Were
Very
Wonder
Behind
Golden
Spectacles
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Problems
Childish
Resolve
Approach
Negotiation
Through
Very
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler
God
Better
Impossible
Childish
Define
More
Only
Know
Him
How
Deny
Which
Realize
Should
Ever
I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.
Sue Perkins
Have Fun
Childish
Silly
Always
Am
Very
Child
Just
Want
Happiest
Fun
Playing
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Me
Old
Parents
Before
Childish
Gave
Spells
Kind
Magic
Cast
Write
Had
Read
Learned
Although
Chest
Years
Five
At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.
A.J. Styles
You
Words
Childish
Say
Says
Kind
Point
Come
House
Deal
Lot
Off
Very
Dad
Slang
Career
For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
Adora Svitak
Time
Me
Behavior
Signs
Childish
Every
Other
Every Time
Kids
Citizens
Demands
Like
Make
Frequent
Occurrence
Exhibit
Normal
American
Irrational
Any
American Citizens
Irresponsible
Being
Display
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson
Saying
Good
People
Pretending
Childish
Doubting
Rubbish
Beneath
Humour
About
Written
Lot
Effectiveness
Gag
Them
Really
Toilet
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore
Childish
Films
Unlike
Books
Lazy
Most
Comic
Comic Books
Lot
Very
Literate
Paint
Illiterate
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Stupidity
Childish
Creation
Think
Our
Everything
Bit
Feel
Naive
Because
Understand
Limited
Scientifically
Very
Senses
Little
Little Bit
The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.
Amos Oz
You
Childish
Society
Herself
Find
Divided
Never
Idea
Most
Himself
Another
Israel
Israelis
Hard
Who
Agree
Even
Villains
Deeply
Two
Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.
Billie Eilish
You
People
Song
Word
Childish
Think
Tyler
Feel
Like
Most
Make
Real
Doing
West
Artist
So Many Different Things
Just
Artists
Being
Different
Mean
Really
Means
Kanye
Kanye West
Many
Different Things
Creator
Things
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow
Life
Hope
Faith
Fear
Cowardice
Childish
Alive
Easy
Immortal
Absurd
Idea
Discover
Origin
Kept
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
Craig Shirley
Girl
Fire
Childish
Chant
Ripped
Something
Struck
Naive
Like
Always
Camp
Off
Yes
Many
Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.
Derren Brown
You
People
Strong
Word
Job
Guilt
Be Nice
Important
Childish
Nice
Think
Too
Worry
Would
Would-Be
Something
More
Idea
Reach
Doing
Useful
Grown-Up
Number
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.
Derren Brown
Art
Childish
Magic
Both
Vaudeville
Cheap
Feet
Dishonesty
Planted
Therefore
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