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Thomas Szasz Quotes

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 15, 1920 - September 8, 2012

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Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

Max Keiser

Name Wall Street Wall Street Most

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

Maxine Peake

Fix Something Like Once Really

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

John Lydon

Love People Brain Up Ease Part

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

Alton Brown

Food Words Chef You Be Prepared Eat

We took our Catholicism very seriously. We never missed Mass; our father was a lector, and both our parents taught catechism. At 3 in the afternoon on Good Friday, we gathered in the living room for 10 minutes of silence in front of a painting of the Crucifixion.

Stephen J. Dubner

Good Father Silence Parents Painting

Indian junk food is my sin, even though I pretend to like Japanese.

Sonam Kapoor

Food Sin Junk Food Pretend Junk

I always wanted to be a dentist! I thought I was going to be fixing teeth and making beautiful smiles.

Tori Bowie

Beautiful Thought Teeth Smiles Going

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Shirley MacLaine

Mother Thinking You Never She Knew

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Robert Baden-Powell

Success Responsibility Key Giving

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Michael Shannon

Sports Child Growing Up Trying Want

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

Corey Feldman

People Society Problems Anything Get

We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

Cicely Tyson

Support Others Own Expect Our How