"As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to……" — Rosemary Mahoney
"As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents."
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19 Quotes by Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney has 19 quotes on this site.
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Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
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The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.
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I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really…
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One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in…
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A majority of my blind students at the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs in Trivandrum, India, a branch of Braille…
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful…
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One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of…
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I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.
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My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she…
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The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in…
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Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is…
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The night sky in Egypt is a swirling mass of stars so bright and numerous the sky seems to tremble…
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More Adolescent Quotes
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one of 152 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Nicholas Rescher
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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