"They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults."
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"What Washington needs is adult supervision."
"I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then."
"I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic."
"Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention."
"Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?"
"Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers."
"The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off."
"Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity."
"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
"Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them."
"If you act like an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life."
"It's very easy to turn a toy into an adult toy: Location, location, location."
"Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word."
"The adult ought never to mold the child after himself, but should leave him alone and work always from the deepest comprehension of the child himself."
"This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness."
"If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you as a single adult to show His love to others because you are in a unique place to minister to others where married adults could not!"
"I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another."
"Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors."
"Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully."