Nerd Quotes - Page 12

• People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.

  Leelee Sobieski

  Growing Up, People, Realizing

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• As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.

  Chris Hardwick

  Talking, People, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or the kids I knew, the isolation they felt - was almost total. They were not part of society; no one thought they were cool.

  Junot Diaz

  Kids, Geek, Computer

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Years

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

  Winona Ryder

  Book, Home, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.

  Michael Gungor

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• Nerdists, unlike nerds, tend to be creators as much as consumers. They're creative consumers.

  Chris Hardwick

  Creative, Consumers, Creator

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power.

  Chris Hardwick

  Government, Zuckerberg, Goes On

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Get over here and talk to her. She's a reporter, not a Dementor.Harry Potter nerd.Whatever. Take the damn phone.

  Robin Benway

  Phones, Mentor, Potters

  Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.71, Penguin

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• I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

  Iain Banks

  Fun, Technology, Thinking

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

  Demetri Martin

  Growing Up, Comedian, Comedy

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• I'm a nerd. I'm a little guy... the last guy you'd expect in a romantic movie.

  Chris Rock

  Guy, Littles, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.

  Emily Browning

  Real, Book, School

  Source: collider.com

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Games

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• I'm definitely a nerd. I'm a cool-ass nerd, but I am definitely a nerd.

  Alicia Keys

  Ass

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• I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

  Jeremy Irvine

  War, Taken, Secret

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm a big comedy nerd, so I'm always looking for the chance to be funny.

  Colin Hanks

  Comedy, Chance, Bigs

  "Colin Hanks Talks FARGO, Preparing for the Project, His Liberating Role, His Frustrating Character, Working in Calgary’s Cold, and Taking on Varied Roles". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2014.

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• I'm a geek and I'm a nerd, and I can listen into any piece of music. I think, I can usually tell you what orchestra it was, I can usually tell you what hall it was in. I can tell you, obviously who the conductor was, and who the composer was.

  Hans Zimmer

  Thinking, Pieces, Orchestra

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

  Andy Biersack

  Growing Up, School, Different

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• I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

  Susan Holloway Scott

  Writing, Research, Periods

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• I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

  Douglas Adams

  Thinking, Order, People

  "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires" with Robert X. Cringely, www.pbs.org. 1996.

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• I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.

  Nicolas Cage

  Cynical, Too Much, Fool

  "'Captain Corelli’s Mandolin': Nicolas Cage Interview". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. July 27, 2001.

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• I talk about stuff like my Blackberry, Lost, the internet, music, etc. so I guess that leads to the "nerd" moniker. But I don't get it that much to be honest. I guess its better than being labeled a "racist" comedian.

  Aziz Ansari

  Comedian, Stuff, Etc

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• My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.

  David Spade

  Calculators, Retiring, Fellows

  "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.

  Joel Courtney

  Knows, Huge

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