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Hermits have no peer pressure. -- Steven Wright
Blame it on Peer Pressure. -- John Marsden
At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure. -- Wyclef Jean
I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us. -- Kim Cattrall
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
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
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat. -- Jerry Nachman
I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way. -- Hilary Duff
Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents. -- Madisen Beaty
I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am. -- Lisa Leslie
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
Habit rules the unreflecting herd. -- William Wordsworth
Never assume the obvious is true. -- William Safire
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure. -- Dennis Wolfberg
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right. -- Steve Martin
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. -- Bruce Lee
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. -- S. I. Hayakawa
The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else. -- Lauren Greenfield
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. -- John W. Gardner
How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents. -- Kevin Leman
Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way. -- Charles D. Hayes
Peer pressure is not a monolithic force that presses adolescents into the same mold. . . . Adolescents generally choose friend whose values, attitudes, tastes, and families are similar to their own. In short, good kids rarely go bad because of their friends. -- Laurence Steinberg
Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards. -- Sandy Berger
Peer pressure is just that: pressure. -- Jerry Spinelli
Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married. -- Adam Levine
My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. -- Kanye West
Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses. -- Andrew Lansley
People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure. -- Sara Paxton
A German firm called Friendsurance relies on people forming their own groups, which apply peer pressure to keep claims and costs lower. The result is refunded premiums for customers and profit for the company. -- John Gerzema
Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure. -- Jerry Spinelli
My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.' -- Tom Colicchio
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure. -- Kevin Gates
Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive. -- Eugene Mirman
The only pressure I agree to, is my conscious and not peer pressure. -- Unarine Ramaru
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. -- Charles Krauthammer
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. -- Kool Moe Dee
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. -- Mike Lofgren
A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure. -- Tony Orlando
Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves. -- Walt Mueller
Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure. -- Paul Collier
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel. -- Walt Mueller
Yeah, I think that I have like, faltered, you know, as a human. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure. -- Kanye West
The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not. -- Ellen DeGeneres
There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. -- Po Bronson
Societal peer pressure to conform runs strong, but as more of us continue to think and act for ourselves, rather than be under the influence of group-think, we begin to make more effective choices. -- Evita Ochel

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