All my adult life, if I didn’t have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
I hadn’t lived in the U.S. for my entire adult life, so a lot of U.S. news agencies, I just had no idea.
I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
I’ve been collecting art for much of my adult life. I started around 1960. And my wife and I really enjoy art a great deal. We don’t have a lot of money, so we have works on paper, but we enjoy them a great deal.
For 50 years – that is, for most of my adult life – I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida… my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I’ve lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
All the weird inconveniences of adult life that you thought they made up to lend excitement and color to episodes of ‘Sex and the City’ are, in fact, real.
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.
I’m a Clevelander. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life here. Every day when I come to work, it’s ‘Let’s turn this team into a consistent winner.’ Because it would be such a special story.
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.
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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.
‘Marnie’ was ahead of its time. People didn’t talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
I spent most of my adult life trying to get as far away from my folks as possible.
I squatted for most of my adult life. I’m not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn’t have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.
I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.
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.
Like a lot of other young people, I never thought about health insurance until I got sick. I was 22, and my adult life was just beginning.
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous ’89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 20 years ago – I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.
For many decades now – and certainly during my adult life in academe – the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
I have been a parent since I was 25. That’s a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.
In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It’s your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.
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.
I’m very conscious that I’ve spent my whole adult life in the public eye.
I know it’s a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it’s more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
I’ve spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it’s actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.
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.
When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
All my adult life, I’ve worked in media that demand you maintain your shape.
I hear many people talking as if the terms liberal, progressive and leftist refer to different factions, and that one might partner with one and reject another. I have been on the left my entire adult life. I never have seen clean distinctions drawn between these things.
I spent much of my adult life focusing on my career and I take pride in my achievements in my field.
During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.
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.
The business of being told to earn a dollar, that no one is going to give you anything – that was kind of my mantra throughout my childhood, and now it’s in my adult life. I find that people really tend to relate to the immigrant father, whether he be Italian, Greek, Spanish or whatever.
Between planning family vacations and running away for novel-writing retreats, I’ve spent much of my adult life questing for the perfect beach escape, renting cottages all along the Florida Gulf and up and down the Atlantic Coast – as far north as Nags Head, as far south as Key West.
I love music. But I’ve never owned a TV in my adult life, and I’ve never lived in a place with a television.
I had a lot of issues in my life after my brother died in 1972, that I carried through to my adult life.
I’ve spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.
I played a sport for most of my adult life that required me to work on two of the biggest holidays in America, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Is it possible to reproduce, later in life, the impact that books, records, and films have between the ages of fourteen and seventeen? The periods of my adult life that have been most miserable have been those in which I lost fidelity to what I discovered then.
Six years after al-Awlaki was born, his family moved back to Yemen, but he returned to the States for college and remained there for much of his adult life.
Not one day of my mother’s adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.
All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life.
It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.
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