Nerd Quotes - Page 3

• Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

  Marc Webb

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

  Phil Robertson

  Growing Up, Want, Lasts

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• I'm a Gemini, so there's two people in me. Straight up. There's the nerd who is totally zoned out in the studio, EQ-ing this kick drum, raising this snare one decibel, or swapping this high hat out for another. Then there's the other side who's a performer. I have to go out on stage and be electric, a fire cracker, just run around the stage and give a show.

  G-Eazy

  Running, Two, Fire

  Source: 215mag.com

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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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• 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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• My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

  Hayley Atwell

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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• I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

  Ben Bernanke

  Proud, Doms

  "Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke on Economy: 'Far Too Early to Declare Victory'" by Susanna Kim, abcnews.go.com. March 27, 2012.

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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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• You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Sweden, Abba, Nerdy

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• I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

  Malin Akerman

  Girl, School, Geek

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Guy, Quirky

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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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• 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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• 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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• He's just intelligent-sort of a nerd, actually. He's the only brother I know who made a 1420 on the SAT. I don't think Chris Dudley did that, and Mr. Smarty Pants went to Yale. Kobe doesn't hang out. He doesn't go to the clubs. He doesn't ride around. He doesn't put rims on his car. He's just him. He's a sophisticated kid. Damn mature for his age.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Brother, Kids

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• I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.

  Brian McKnight

  Athlete, Thinking, Musician

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• The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.

  Jaron Lanier

  Intelligent, Order, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.36, Vintage

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• Steve Jobs was probably mildly on the autistic spectrum. Basically, you've probably known people who were geeky and socially awkward but very smart. When does geeks and nerds become autism? That's a gray area. Half the people in Silicon Valley probably have autism.

  Temple Grandin

  Jobs, Smart, Autism

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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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• I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sports, Real, Writing

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

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• Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

  Zachary Levi

  Passion, People, Comedian

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• I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer.

  Josh Groban

  Hard Work, People, Needs

  Bangkok Post, August 27, 2002.

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• Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

  Dick Van Dyke

  Book, Chocolate, Life Is Like

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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 don't think that I ever thought of myself as a nerd.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Thinking

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