Marc Andreessen Quotes

All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.

As soon as I know it's about technological things or spies, I lose interest. I want to know what goes on in people's minds.

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I was the hallway clown in high school.

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.

Girls like me more sober.

Hollywood is a lot like high school. Everyone was interested in what the head cheerleader was doing and what the captain of the football team was doing and if they were dating each other.

If we were a culture of high-risk alcoholics, and suddenly we had Jack Daniels piped into our houses, we would be feeding that fire. Social networking, and the internet as a whole, seems to have simply landed in an extremely fertile place in an extremely fertile time in history, when we all have these narcissistic tendencies anyway - you can go further back into the self-esteem movement, and Dr. Spock, and the 'everybody gets a ribbon at the track meet' sort of thing, which preceded the internet - and then you drop the internet into the middle of this, and we've all gone haywire.

Adolescents show off. That's another way of wanting to connect with people. It's not an aspect of human behavior that we generally consider to be very admirable, but it is, in some way, a means of connecting with someone else and not being alone.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

I don't have anything new to say about teenagers.

I've done things that should be talked about, and covered serious issues that face our kids, but people aren't interested in that.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

I was definitely a part of a clique, and we all had our friend groups, but I tried really hard to branch out and be friends with a lot of people.

When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually realise who wants to be there with you and who wants to be your friend.

When it comes to creating emotional wellbeing, we are only going to achieve this, I believe, if we help each other in that effort. Part of that is reaching out and building social connections in people who may not always have the social connections or the support that they need.

When I'm in a bar I need to be the coolest one that can drink more than anyone else and I need the girls to fancy me.

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

When you're younger, you really care who your fans are.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.