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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Artist, Careers, People

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• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Ernest Istook

  School, Kids, Parent

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• Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

  Alison Gopnik

  Mean, Parent, Leaving

  Alison Gopnik (2016). “The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children”, p.204, Macmillan

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• My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

  Doug Flutie

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

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• Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

  James Black

  Creativity, Independent, Science

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peer Review, Scientific Method

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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

  Alison Gopnik

  Teenager, Want, Rewards

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• I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

  Jane Fonda

  Opportunity, Hands, Film

  "Show Me the Women — In Hollywood" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

  Sylvia Earle

  Cities, Feet, Forests

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• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Parent, Support

  "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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• A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Successful, Patterns, Recognition

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.100, Penguin

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• Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

  Jon Landau

  Art, Men, Rocks

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• For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Real, Thinking, Media

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• I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Drama, School, Discouraged

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Together, Actors, Enjoy

  "Exclusive: Sigourney Weaver Talks ABDUCTION, VAMPS and IT IS WHAT IT IS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 23, 2011.

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• All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

  Dionne Warwick

  Dirty, Naughty, Asking

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

  Shania Twain

  Appreciate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

  Felix Dennis

  Self Esteem, Hands, Feds

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.232, Penguin

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• I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

  Sara Paxton

  Teenager, Thinking, Peer Pressure

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• I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

  Katy Perry

  Bravery, Magic, Secret

  "Katy Conquers All" by Claire Hoffman, www.marieclaire.com. December 9, 2013.

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• I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, Parent, Savages

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• We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.

  Vince McMahon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Looks

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• It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.

  George McGovern

  War, Fighting, Watches

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