Nerd Quotes - Page 15

• Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Lying

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.391, Penguin

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

  Sarah Vowell

  Caring, Too Much, Way

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Mar 31, 2010

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• Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

  Kevin Hearne

  Python, Feelings, Feeling Depressed

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.179, Del Rey

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• I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

  Bjork

  Littles, Obsessed, Corners

  "'Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2005.

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• The only thing I knew in the world as a little kid was comedy. And no other kids in my school cared about it at all. There was no one to talk about it with. You know, we're in a geek culture now where comedy is so giant. I'm one of the people that, you know, works on Funny or Die. And there is just a giant culture of comedy nerds. But back then, I was alone, and I had a little confidence about it because I felt like, this is my thing, this is the only thing that only I know about.

  Judd Apatow

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I owe a great deal to Revenge Of The Nerds movie and I loved making it. But I've said this a lot: My character is as far from me as it's possible to be. People feel like they know who he is, and when they see me they just assume that I'm going to be like that guy. For me, to be that kind of anti-social misfit was something that I found to be a real challenge.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Revenge, Real, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm kind of a tech person, a nerd. I've always been the person who, when we got our Christmas presents, knew how to work them and set them up; the racecars, whatever. Sit me down in front of a computer program, I'll be fine.

  Alexandra Richards

  Kind, Computer, Program

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

  Hank Stuever

  Character, Player, Stereotype

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Deutsche Telekom was a brand that people still loved, the nerds loved it, and it was still there, it was still visible. The advertiser was OK. But it was a mess. It was in my mind, though, intuitively obvious what to do. I had some advisers and friends, and we looked at it and said all you have to do is get the iPhone, buy some spectrum, consolidate the industry, reinvigorate the brand, and take this company public.

  John J. Legere

  People, Mind, Obvious

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The Innkeepers were two nerds in a dead-end job and then they try to get involved and they get in over their heads, and how does it affect them? That, to me, just seems like what happens to people.

  Ti West

  Jobs, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think when you're drinking you don't have the clarity to think about things. It's not easy to talk about obviously but I think quitting drinking was one of the most important decisions I've ever made for myself. It's not easy, especially when I'm touring and everyone is partying and I'm backstage playing Scrabble or drawing in my notebook because I'm a total nerd now.

  Marissa Nadler

  Notebook, Party, Drinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Athlete, College, Artist

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• The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use you. And the evidence is clear. Look at all of these groups that have been voting Democrat for 50 years. Take a look at the towns that have been nothing but Democrat, towns and cities, for 30 years, and just take a look at them. The evidence is right there. We got the strong, silent type, and they have been replaced by this pajama-clad kid that the Regime used to sell Obamacare. The pajama kid! The nerd in his pajamas.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Strong, Party, Kids

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was also doing coke and listening to death metal and was obsessed with Walt Disney art. I just felt it was a type of guy you hadn't really seen before, and I was so happy with how it came out.

  Rob Lowe

  Art, Sex, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did not want to be the stereotype of either Bollywood or what Indian actors are usually offered. The exotic, beautiful girl, or the academically inclined nerd. And I wanted to play a lead... I didn't settle for less.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Beautiful, Girl, Stereotype

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It is the thing that legitimizes language and makes language real. You never think that it's actually compiled by living, breathing nerds like me. When you realize that it's compiled by people, it becomes a different thing, a different kind of document.

  Kory Stamper

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

  Kory Stamper

  People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a big nerd. I geek out when I walk into Comic-Cons. This is like my heaven.

  Carrie Keagan

  Heaven, Geek

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I grew up a nerd and now I'm a geek? I don't know.

  Carrie Keagan

  Geek

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• One thing that really attracted me to punk was the DIY aspect. And the fact that, since I was a nerd, I was like 'you mean nerds can belong to this little society? So all of these things went into my attraction to it.

  Milo Aukerman

  Mean, Facts, Diy

  Source: vandalamagazine.com

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• Forget nerds on Facebook. You're never gonna persuade 'em. They're never gonna like Donald Trump. They're always gonna razz you about it. They're losers. Do not allow your happiness to be determined and defined by what these people on Facebook say.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Determined, Loser

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Well, I think that everybody is kind of a nerd at heart.

  Simon Helberg

  Heart, Thinking, Kind

  "Simon Helberg Talks The Big Bang Theory and Dr. Horrible Sequel". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2009.

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• There are certain parts of a classic nerd's brain that can destroy that person - obsessing about things to the detriment of everything else in your life. But those are the same tools that you can use to turn everything around.

  Chris Hardwick

  Brain, Tools, Use

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

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• The difference being that a nerd would wear a D&D shirt because he loves D&D while a hipster would wear a D&D shirt because it's ridiculous that he is wearing a D&D shirt.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hipster, Differences, Ridiculous

  "Chris Hardwick: Lord of the Nerds". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. June 17, 2011.

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• What people refer to as nerds or geeks, all they really are is people who are passionate about what they like, and aren't afraid of it. To me, it's very frustrating when people are discourage from being enthusiastic about things. This idea of the geek, or the nerd; all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.

  Andrew W.K.

  Ideas, People, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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