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 would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
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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'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.
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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.
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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When I work, I wear pants usually because I want to be comfortable. I wear dark colors, especially in winter, because I don't want to concentrate on myself but on what I'm working on. Because I really, really love clothes, I can start to think too much about myself. It's distracting.
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I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.
