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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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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long time. It has made people almost literally insane, even those who make a great show of repudiating it. Those people, like novelists, who can no longer enjoy this status are condemned to despise it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.
- Connected
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of the pivotal moments in my adult life are connected to the wrestling business.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020