- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adult Life Quotes
Years spent learning who you really are.
These adult life quotes trace long careers and quiet realizations, from intelligence work spent protecting secrets to years lived under a mistaken belief about basic rights. Browse Feel quotes for more personal reflection.
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- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my entire adult life involved in the community trying to help people live decent lives, working for a strong and secure state of Israel, and making sure that the most vulnerable in our society receive the care that they need.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd spent my whole adult life considering myself an independent entity, my life filled by work and friends and family. Suddenly I had a male partner, someone I woke up with and went to sleep with every night.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020