Huey Long Quotes

Irrespective of my father's support, if people don't like me there's nothing my family status can do about it.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

Now tell me, why am I not popular in England?

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

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

I could never dream of being cool.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

I think everyone in their life has some point on their life wanted to be like everybody else or wanted to be like the captain of the football team.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.