#nerd

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#academic #because #being #book #childhood

I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#comedy #doctor #downstairs #early #engineer

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#anything #chubby #ever #except #good

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#grew #i #i always #loved #loves

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#cool #given #just #nerds #politics

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#call #culture #gotten #hip #i

People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#gets #high #high school #know #little

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it. ↗

— Ariel Winter

#books #century #empowerment #female #had

Everyone wise was once a nerd, but not every awkward loser is able to grow a long beard. I can grow chin stubble, but I'm not cool enough to be a nerd. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #nerd #wisdom #funny

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius