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Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

~Douglas Adams

Topics: Adolescent America Australia Boy Canada Country Engaging Every Face Hard Highly Intelligent Jack Jack Nicholson Laughs Like Manner Nicholson Particular Person Right Threatening Type Up Very Woman You Your

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You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up.

~Earl Weaver

Topics: Adolescent Adult Anyone Ballplayer Being Close Even Got Grown Had Home Kid Living Manager Married Mean Must Never Parents Remember Son Sure Then Though Until Up You

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Typically diagnosed during childhood and adolescent years, juvenile diabetes, also referred to as Type I diabetes, currently affects more than 3 million Americans and more then 13,000 children are diagnosed each year.

~Elijah Cummings

Topics: Adolescent Affects Also American Childhood Children Currently Diabetes Diagnosed Each Each Year Juvenile Million More Referred Than Then Type Year Years

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While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Adolescent Also Before Characters Create Deals Drive Had Instrumental Issue Never Novels Only Plot Point Point Of View Pov Resolving Those View Whatever Which While Written

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Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adolescent Angst Better Cohesion Comic Contradictions Defined Distance Emotional Girl High Hughes Intelligence Investment John Keeping Later Mean Movies Narrative Scene Shines Strength Teenagers Than Though Understanding Which Whole Works

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For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.

~Esther Duflo

Topics: Adolescent Around Bear Children Die Early Girl Higher Infancy Likely Maternal Millions More Mortality Motherhood Rates Suffer Those Too Who World

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It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

~Ezekiel Emanuel

Topics: Adolescent Child Dies Does Infant Most People Still Terrible Think Worse

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I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Adolescent Amateur Landing Me Mercury Moon Onward Program Scientist Space Space Program Started To The Moon Very Years

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I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

~George Dyson

Topics: Adolescent Everyone Hated High High School Rebellious School

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The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

~Gerald R. Ford

Topics: Adolescent Again Allow America Arrogant Dictate Election Elite Guard Lesson Must National Never Organization Party Political Regular Terms Watergate

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