Nerd Quotes - Page 16

• Science Fiction: fairy tales for nerds.

  Richard Bayan

  Fiction, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth.  Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

  Brennan Manning

  Powerful, Sight, Female

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• What nerds miss is that it takes hard work to make sales look easy.

  Peter Thiel

  Hard Work, Missing, Looks

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.100, Crown Business

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• What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.

  Jake Epstein

  Believe, Character, Men

  "From Degrassi High To Manhattan: Jake Epstein Dons The Spidey Suit". Interview with Louis Peitzman, www.buzzfeed.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.

  Amy Poehler

  Heart, Giving, Trying

  "Amy Poehler cracks jokes, offers life lessons in Harvard speech" by Jessica Derschowitz, www.cbsnews.com. May 26, 2011.

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• It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Library, Tables

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• That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.

  John Burnside

  Passion, Mean, Wonderful

  John Burnside (2010). “Glister”, p.21, Random House

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• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

  Erich Fromm

  Successful, Political, Criminals

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.262, Open Road Media

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• If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Sexy, Character, Designer Clothes

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• Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

  Claudia Christian

  Respectful, Sci Fi, Honorable

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• As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?

  Nicholas Brendon

  Morning, Fun, Hair

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• I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

  Julia Jones

  Real, Book, Three

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• She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.

  Denise Richards

  Girl, Has Beens, Bond Girl

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• I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

  Sofia Coppola

  Stories, Love Story, Wanted

  "From the iW Vaults | Sofia Coppola Talks 'Lost in Translation,' Her Love Story That’s Not 'Nerdy'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. July 6, 2011.

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• When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.

  Jason Wiles

  Real, Work, Bulletproof Vest

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• Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature.

  Chris Hardwick

  Understanding, Details, Geek

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

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• People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.

  Robert Englund

  Redneck, Years, White

  Arrow interview, www.joblo.com. February 7, 2003.

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• If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Christian, Baseball, Rome

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• C.M. Punk...I think you're a nerd

  Jeff Hardy

  Thinking, Punk

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• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  Illeana Douglas

  Hero, Ideas, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.

  Rich Sommer

  Games, Extracurricular Activities, Activity

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• I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors.

  Jared Gilman

  Appreciate, Videogame

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• The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Culture, Flavor

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• To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Girl, School, Hard Times

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• I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.

  Vinod Khosla

  Mean, Technology, Political

  "On The Record: Vinod Khosla". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. May 11, 2008.

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