Nerd Quotes - Page 2

• There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

  Sandra Bullock

  Sexy, Computer, Internet

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• The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included.

  Gary Gulman

  Loneliness, Hobbies, Definitions

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• I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

  Patton Oswalt

  Stereotype, Outcast, Felt

  "Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die". www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Life, Real, World

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.549, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Men, Guy

  Pittacus Lore (2013). “The Fall of Five: Lorien Legacies”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Boss, One Day

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• Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

  Moby

  Book, Home, Laptops

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

  Moby

  Lunch, Clubs, Littles

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• Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Dramatic Life, Battle

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• A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.

  Patton Oswalt

  Winning, Hands, Gone

  "Ratatouille Star Patton Oswalt On Geeks Vs. Nerds" by Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. June 26, 2007.

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• The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

  Teresa Palmer

  Sweet, Passion, Writing

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• All you nerds out there (me included) - don't always rely on stats for the perfect answer.

  Bobby Bragan

  Perfect, Answers, Rely

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• Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

  George Will

  Political, Politics, Conservative

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• I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Culture, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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• One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

  Will Self

  Diversity, Tolerance, Vampire

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• I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Play, Enough

  Interview with Tim Leong, timleong.com. April 2008.

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• In politics, nothing is contemptible.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Politician

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

  Scott Ian

  Book, Guy, Fantasy

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• Dumb nerd, scratch everything you already done heard
  I could go platinum if my album wasn't more than one word.

  Chamillionaire

  Hip Hop, Dumb, Done

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• I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?

  Craig Newmark

  Money, Jobs, Technology

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• I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.

  Claire Danes

  Smart, Kids, Quality

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• I'm just a big old nerd.

  Claire Danes

  Bigs

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• I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

  Louis C. K.

  Growing Up, Awkward, Littles

  "Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan". Interview with Austin L. Ray, www.cnn.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Swings

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