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To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free? -- Katy Lederer
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. -- Clara Hughes
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. -- Frank Sinatra
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. -- Philip Wylie
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. -- Tennessee Williams
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent. -- Miles Teller
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. -- Louis de Bernieres
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way. -- Paul Mazursky
I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history. -- Al Jourgensen
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. -- Wayne Kramer
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all. -- Larry Elder
One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too. -- Conor Oberst
I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf. -- Philipp Meyer
Rambunctious and delinquent dogs become angelic when sitting. -- Ian Dunbar
Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little. -- Johnny Knoxville
Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door. -- Charles Finch
A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy, -- Leon Wieseltier
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me. -- John Waters
Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under. -- Osamu Dazai
I doubt I would ever be missed. Noted absent, charged delinquent, reprimanded but never missed. -- Maria V. Snyder
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. -- Susan Sontag
The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion. -- B. F. Skinner
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If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have. -- Abraham Zaleznik
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence. -- Lisa Lutz
Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something. -- Sarah Dessen
General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, your the government. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics. -- Jeannette Walls
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. -- Norman Mailer
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries. -- Steve Olson
Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker. -- John Waters
For every dollar spent on early child development you save $7 over the life course because children with better early child development are less likely to end up delinquent, involved in crime, unemployed and so on. -- Michael Marmot

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