You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.
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FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connec... OPHELIA LOVIBOND With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They... CLAIRE FOY Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to b... BAM MARGERA Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU When you treat a kid as an adult, they start to act as an adult in the way they commit crimes. ABBY ANDERSON When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like... BEYONCE KNOWLES Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're lau... LARRY THE CABLE GUY People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to. RACHEL HOLLIS If you're just a nice guy - you don't let people walk on you - but if you're just a nice... BILL ENGVALL If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat... JAMES SINEGAL Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say... MAGNUS SCHEVING I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't... JIM BROWN No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adu... ORNETTE COLEMAN I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn... ANDERSON COOPER If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent ... BILL NYE As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent. ADAM LEVINE The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had... RUSH LIMBAUGH At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them. ALAN SHEARER When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them you... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that... ERIC WEDDLE When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the... CASS ELLIOT I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about w... LANA DEL REY When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving the... EMMANUEL JAL Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And yo... JASON MORAN I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if thos... MIKE SINGLETARY People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individ... DALEY THOMPSON If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. Yo... NICK FLYNN Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their... MOHAMED ELBARADEI You want to hire great people and give them the opportunity to fail. You need to let them figure thi... DAVE GOLDBERG Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to k... GEORGE HARRISON When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things. DWIGHT HENRY I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no f... DAVID DUCHOVNY It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and con... NEIL PATRICK HARRIS If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don&... JOHN KRICFALUSI You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don'... MARC RACICOT If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use i... OLAF CARLSON-WEE When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then yo... CAMPBELL SCOTT If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING I would love to have a conversation with you when we're working, and if I'm at a basketball ... EMILY RIOS I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven'... DAVID SMALL You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And i... JIM HENSON You're not a bad parent if you don't save for your kid's college because instead you had... DAVE RAMSEY It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you... SHAKIRA You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shoul... NATE RUESS Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking so... MOLLY CRABAPPLE I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But ... PATRICK RAFTER If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with t... DAN FARMER If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you... STEVE GUTTENBERG It's hard for a shortstop to play with a guy you don't know in the middle of the season. If ... ASDRUBAL CABRERA I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's ga... JAY-Z Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and... JACK HUSTON You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if... DEBORAH TANNEN Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're bas... STEVE JOBS If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour y... DAVE CHAPPELLE Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they... TRAVIS BRADBERRY I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversa... GREG GRAFFIN Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the p... DAVE PIRNER Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they... PAM GRIER I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why... KRISTIN HERSH I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... BO BURNHAM No one thinks of the lab-testing experience as positive. It should be! One way to create that is to ... ELIZABETH HOLMES I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't k... MAYA ANGELOU Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious w... FANNY BRICE In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title... PILOU ASBAEK Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if y... SARA BLAKELY Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ... LARRY ELDER Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro... LEWIS BLACK The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success. TIGER WOODS I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry beca... JIM HARRISON I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ... RIAN JOHNSON The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You do... NAS With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than a... ERIC CHURCH It's interesting when people make comments about celebrities' weight gain or lack of weight ... BUSY PHILIPPS I'm scared of horses, and I don't know how to shoot them, but that's what excites me. Af... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU When you come to L.A. as a kid with your mom, you're lured into doing things that you think are ... PENN BADGLEY If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back. DAVID HASSELHOFF As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to... TILMAN J. FERTITTA And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwrit... JESSIE J Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them... RANDY PAUSCH
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DAVE MORRIS Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ... DAVE GAHAN If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to... DAVE BARRY The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or... DAVE BARRY The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts.. Everything is ONE! DAVE ZEBIAN I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor... DAVE BARRY I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afte... DAVE PELZER 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr... DAVE MORRIS I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi... DAVE MATTHEWS I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on... DAVE SITEK We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. DAVE FARBER We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless... DAVE BARRY The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio... DAVE BARRY There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu... DAVE MATTHES ...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church. DAVE MATTHES I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. DAVE BARRY Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on. DAVE BARRY It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ... DAVE BARRY You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident." DAVE BARRY Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms! DAVE BARRY I'd take a nerf bullet for you. DAVE BARRY What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car... DAVE BARRY The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter ... DAVE BARRY It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have... DAVE BARRY I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r... DAVE BARRY Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. DAVE BARRY I may not know Karate, but I know crazy and I'm not afraid to use it. DAVE BARRY In beer there is freedom, in wine there is health, in cognac there is power and in water there is ba... DAVE BARRY Wake up naked drinking coffee Making plans to change the world While the world is changing... DAVE MATTHEWS Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see wi... DAVE BARRY