Ian Bremmer Quotes

You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

In high school, you re either a bully, a jock or a nerd, and I somehow tried to jump between camps by using humor. It's amazing how you can blend in with that.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.

Another friend began to say, "Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he..." This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, "I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him."

How we behave in our public lives inevitably reflects values, attitudes and experiences embedded in our private lives and vice versa.

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

The idea of being with my peers at a real school seemed much more exciting than making movies.

Middle school was my most awkward stage. I switched schools after the sixth grade after having gone to the same school for six years with the same group of 40 kids. It was a shock. I reinvented myself. I experimented with different styles, different groups of friends, and different types of music and not knowing how to be cool.

I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.

School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates.

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.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my soccer team were fighting because of dyads and triads.

Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

I was at Wesleyan first. I was there for a semester because I wanted that traditional college vibe. But when I got there, people would do normal college things, and I was like, 'I can't be here. This is a nightmare.'

We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.

I think people are more alike than they are different, especially in high school. No matter what clique you belong to, everybody's trying to get approval and trying to fit in.

In college, most people I knew were living in the dorms, and I wasn't, so I didn't have many friends.

I thought school was immensely boring, and as a teenager, I often found social life quite mystifying... I was not someone to whom it came easily to be charming.

There are lots of things going on for teenagers, with exam stress, changing friendship groups, becoming independent, and all those hormone changes affecting you.