Brett Ratner Quotes

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

I was super cool in school.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

In every high school, there is a clique.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I wasn't the trendiest girl at college.

I am definitely a person of color.

In high school, it was all about popularity, being with the boyfriend and all the girls thinking he's cute.

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

I think being a Pink Lady, for me, meant that I was in the 'In Crowd.' I was one of the cooler kids.

I don't want to say that we are the world in that we are not distinct from each other. I want to say that the humanity that is our foundation is common, but my culture, my beliefs, my values, what makes me sing and what makes me happy and the language I speak in and the relationships I have in the world are distinctive.

In Oklahoma, the girls like the big football players. Girls were more interested in those guys, and I was, like, kind of a drama kid.

Especially for blacks, but also for many Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian-Americans, group identity is now shaped more by a liberal politics in which past victimization is deferred to, and for which redress is sought with preferential treatment, than by a unified culture.