Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

Lloyd Blankfein

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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?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

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

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Up
  • Star
  • Speak

• Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• 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.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon - rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time

• The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• The three extreme kinds of schizophrenia are unmistakable: the haunted paranoid surrounded by his imaginary community of spies and assassins, the clownish, sometimes incontinent hebephrenic, and the frozen catatonic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Community
  • Frozen

• It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • City

• 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.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • People
  • Life
  • Movie

• I'm actually a sci-fi nerd on the inside; I just happen to be symmetrically put together on the outside.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Together
  • Nerd

• Nerd rage to me is kind of just empty rage. I mean, ultimately, you're not going to do it; you're not going to fight somebody, you know.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Nerd

• 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.

  

  Bjork
  • Time
  • Character
  • Nerd

• My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • School
  • High
  • Girlfriend

• A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.

  

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  • Heart
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Good
  • School
  • May

• I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

  

  Derek Mears
  • Up
  • Nerd

• When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.

  

  Jean Chatzky

• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  

  Randy Travis
  • World
  • Leave
  • Behind

• Dreams, Mr. Nyazi, are perfect ideals, complete in themselves. How can you impose them on a constantly changing, imperfect, incomplete reality? You would become a Humbert, destroying the object of your dream; or a Gatsby, destroying yourself.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Perfect

• A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom, fantasies. At the same time, that's where my creativity can be found. If I tried to control it and make it more mature, it wouldn't be good at all. It'd be uninteresting, without any vivacity.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Time
  • Good
  • Control

• I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Nerd