Ben Carson Quotes

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

I've never been cool.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house.

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.

I could never dream of being cool.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're a little girl at school, you want to be like the other little girls.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.

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

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.