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“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.”
“McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.”
“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”
“When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I ...”
“I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of kar...”
“I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.”
“I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the c...”
“I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.”
“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...”
“Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.”
“I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sp...”
“My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.”
“I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player.”
“I played sports growing up in high school.”
“But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.”
“I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and ...”
“When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and ...”
“I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.”
“I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.”
“I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part...”
