Leonard Susskind Quotes

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners. Nothing serious, but tease me. I remember knocking his food out of his hand one time when he in the middle of explaining something to his friends, and they all laughed, so I thought that was pretty nice. 'Well, there you go buddy.'

I had a nickname in junior high, and I'm loathe to say this: 'potato lady.'

One time, when I was about eight, these guys started throwing water balloons at me. That really did ruin my summer.

I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.

When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.

Kids called me a cow and mooed at me.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

I'm not going to hurt anybody other than that dick who keeps writing songs about me.

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Kids used to tease me unmercifully about that name.

My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

I'm tired of getting made fun of.

I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

I love to bug the little bastard.

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

I was an overweight kid, and I went through a period where, oh my God, they were making cow sounds at me when I walked down the hallway and just humiliating me. Kids can be mean.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don't even understand.

When we were in high school, Jonathan would always try to embarrass me in front of girls, so I consider it my duty to pay him back.

All the racial slurs I done heard. All the things I heard about my mom, and my basketball game and my kids, all this. It felt good to punch a fan one time.