Kiowa Gordon Quotes
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.
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I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.
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I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.
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But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.
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A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
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Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.
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I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.
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I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
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I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
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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. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.
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I've learned that just because you're successful in one area doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful in another.
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I would love to have my own lingerie line.
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All of them had been so tested and retested that they had acquired considerable skill in answering test questions the way the examiners wanted them answered.
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I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.
