Marcus Sakey Quotes

I'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.

Marcus Sakey

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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

• Well, the thing about my high school, which I loved, is that we had uniforms. But whenever we had a free dress day, it was prep-ville, with sweater vests and polo shirts and khakis and Dockers.

  

  Vanessa Minnillo
  • School
  • High
  • Free

• 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

• The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Bad
  • Red
  • Ugly

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

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Nerd

• 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

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

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Nerd

• It's absolutely surprising to me how well 'The State' has held up as far as people liking it and having fond memories of it, considering it's a sketch show.

  

  Ken Marino
  • People
  • Up
  • Memories

• My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Desire
  • Technology
  • Deep

• I'm a total nerd.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Nerd

• Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Faith

• I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Remember
  • Science
  • Superhero

• The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Happy
  • Peace
  • Marriage

• I'm a card-carrying nerd, a gamer, and sci-fi geek.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Nerd