My mother recalls that, when yet another teacher reported to her that "your child is not working up to her potential", I responded "if I never work up to my potential, what makes you think I have any? Maybe this is as good as I get."

I had just turned eight.
(And as I recall, I got in trouble for being fresh-- though I wasn't trying to be, I really was curious.)

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"I love it when you two impersonate earthlings."