Mitch Hedberg Quotes

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the semi-covert business of collective monitoring, in which levels of intake and restraint are aired, compared, noticed: 'What are you getting? Is that all you're having? A salad? Oh, please.'

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

When we were growing up, all of us kids were vegetarians. No one had asked me to stop eating meat - I just noticed everyone else around me had stopped, so I followed the crew.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

I don't like to interview people in front of their friends; they clam up.

Peers often matter more than parents.

… the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through natural selection as one of the most important elements of the social instincts.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

From a young age, I was never into going out and partying.

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.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

I find often people wait to order until I order. And then I love upsetting them. Sometimes I'll order a cheeseburger and macaroni and cheese.