Bruce Dern Quotes

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin.

Peers often matter more than parents.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

I was in 'Fiesta,' but only because Aaliyah said she wanted me to do it that way.

I was safe, due to my parents, but the Boys' Club was a massive influence.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

I smoked pot when I was a teenager because other kids were doing it, but I didn't enjoy it that much.

I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a day all summer. But I loved the cassock and surplice, ringing the bells, lighting the candles - it was like being a glamrock roadie for God.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

Within a few short hours, he nearly had me agreeing to try deer jerky for the first time. Almost. If it weren't for Cam continuously whispering "Bambi" in my ear every couple of minutes, I would've caved.

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is to succumb to enough pressure that you do not drive your peers away, but not so much that you end up in a situation in which you are dead or otherwise uncomfortable. This is a difficult trick, and most people never master it, and end up dead or uncomfortable at least once during their lives.