James S. Coleman Quotes

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.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that 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 don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

When you're younger, you really care who your fans are.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom king. I was kind of the dancer, the performer, but I was always very athletic, too.

I could never dream of being cool.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

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

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

I didn't want to be a hero to kids; I didn't think I had that. I just wanted to be popular.

It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

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 didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

All I care about is what the boys at the fork of the creek think of me.