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  • Grown-ups desperately need to feel safe, and then they project onto the kids. But what none of us seem to realize is how smart kids are. They don’t like what we write for them, what we dish up for them, because it’s vapid, so they’ll go for the hard words, they’ll go for the hard concepts, they’ll go for the stuff where they can learn something. Not didactic things, but passionate things.

    Smart   Writing   Kids  
    "Maurice Sendak Sheds Moonlight on a Dark Tale". www.nytimes.com. 1993.
  • I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid.

    Smart   School   Kids  
    Source: mavericksofthemind.com
  • I'm 23 but I got a brain like I'm 32 man, switched the numbers around. Smart kid too, straight-A student, I was just a class clown.

    Motivation   Smart   Kids  
  • I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

    Smart   Book   Kids  
  • I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

    Smart   Kids   Sick  
    Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax
  • The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

    Children   Smart   Kids  
    Sam Levenson (1966). “EVERYTHING BUT MONEY”
  • And my daughter's too smart. She gets it watching TV. She gets it. She's five. She gets it. I... I have a smart kid; I don't want a smart kid. I'm gonna start feedin' her lead paint chips just to bring her down.

    Daughter   Smart   Kids  
    "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.
  • I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

    Smart   Kids   Parent  
    Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.
  • I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

    Smart   Believe   School  
    "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.
  • The idea of social performance, that we're always performing identities, is something I got fairly obsessed with. I think it's probably because I am a person who went to 15 different elementary and middle schools. I moved all the time, often having to run out in the middle of the night because my mom couldn't pay the bills. There were schools where I'd be the poor loser kid. There were schools where I'd suddenly be the smart kid or the cool kid, although that was very seldom.

    Mom   Running   Smart  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • My kids, that's my biggest accomplishment. Being able to have talented and smart kids. They are doing something I didn't do. I didn't finish school so...that's my biggest accomplishment.

    Smart   School   Kids  
    Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
  • Not everyone’s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and they’re thinking, “Yeah, this is fine for now, but this can’t be it forever”. There’s got to be something better – but they have to find it for themselves. That’s the next generation right there.

    Smart   Kids   Thinking  
  • I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

    Smart   School   Kids  
  • Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

    Mom   Smart   Kids  
  • My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

    Smart   Taken   Kids  
    James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press
  • All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

    Growing Up   Smart   Kids  
    Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
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