Nerd Quotes
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I think it's reasonable: you can own your nerd credibility when you're an astronaut.
Kathleen Rubins -
That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
Amy Adams
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I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
Brian Posehn -
People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
Aisha Tyler -
I know a lot of brown actors who play terrorists because they're physically intimidating. For me, it was like, 'O.K., you'll be the nerd.' So I've played the nerd. I've played food-delivery guys. But I always tried to find something in the characters so that they weren't just defined by what they looked like.
Kumail Nanjiani -
No one messes around with a nerd's computer and escapes unscathed.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
I'm a total protein shake junkie nerd. I get creative every morning - you never know what you're gonna get in my shake... fruit? Peanut butter? Ice-cream?
Christina Perri -
I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
Jessica Pare
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I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.
Kristian Nairn -
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 -
Comic-Con is nerd Christmas. People go wanting to have fun.
Chris Hardwick -
I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I'm pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.
Craig Newmark -
I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
Joel Courtney -
I'm a total nerd.
Anna Chlumsky
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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.
Sarah Vowell -
Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.
Chris Hardwick -
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 -
What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.
Jake Epstein -
I'm definitely not a nerd.
Brett Ratner -
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
Chris Hardwick
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I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.
Jonathan Lethem -
I would say I have a bit of a nerd vibe.
Kelly McCreary -
In high school, I would classify myself as a theatre nerd. Always studying, reading and attending plays!
Meaghan Jette Martin -
I may be a huge computer nerd, but even so I don't think education should be about computers. Not as a subject, and not as a classroom resource either.
Linus Torvalds