Mauro Icardi Quotes

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

At school I was easily misled, but that's childhood. I remember I used to shoplift tins of Airfix paint and football badges.

A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

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

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques - we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.

Football doesn't bother me. I just enjoy it. It's when you have to go to clubs and sing and do initiations and all that stuff. That's when I get nervous.

I was the funny one in my group; there was a lot pressure to be responsible for everyone's happiness. I didn't like watching other friends of mine be called the 'pretty one' or the 'smart one.' That had no depth, and it didn't match how I knew them.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I never wanted to be a wild kid. I respected my parents and I had great friends. I was lucky. We did a lot of church activities. There were the bad kids in school who partied all the time, but none of my close friends did.

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

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Everybody is influenced by someone.

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.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

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.

I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.