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Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.


Junot Díaz

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Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
TAYE DIGGS A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.
TRAVIS SCOTT When you walk off the train from New York, you see this dirt parking lot with deep ruts and tractor-...
BILL BRAY I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n...
ADAM RAPP Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.
KEN JENNINGS I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu...
MAYER HAWTHORNE I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.
BELLA HEATHCOTE Walt never gets in a position where he's off balance. He takes pride in what he does and wants to wi...
STEVE HUTCHINSON Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.
MAX BROOKS Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.
GEORGE ANDERSON I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have...
ED HELMS If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would I jump off a bridge? If everyone on a bridge suddenly fe...
GREG JOHNSON And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be...
RAINBOW ROWELL In 1912, a man named Franz Reichelt jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute suit he designed...
JENNIFER NIVEN Kyle is a true sportsman though. His main concern after finishing his leg was the well being of the ...
DAVE BEAUDOIN Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I ...
GABE NEWELL A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person...
CHARLES DICKENS Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
JAYNE MANSFIELD If only he can get over becoming a NERD.
MICHAEL BUCKLEY An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whol...
ELEANOR ROBSON BELMONT That's what Mark does. He hustles on every play and gets lost in the mix until he does something lik...
DUSTIN MAGUIRE I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind o...
JOHN HAWKES You're a nerd.
TRACEY WARD Elliot was really in a period where he was writing a lot ... feeling the inspiration. It was really ...
ALEX BERAM Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
JAYNE MANSFIELD A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like ...
CHARLES DICKENS I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.
MICHAEL LANDES I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to w...
DANIELLE PANABAKER (Johnson) had a couple of streaks where he would put up eight points in a matter of 45 seconds. He h...
BRIAN VOYLES I almost think of nerd brains as rattlesnake venom; like, you can milk it. You can milk the pulpy ve...
CHRIS HARDWICK I was a teenager I felt like the world's worst nerd.
ERIC WILSON The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close...
NATALIE MERCHANT He wasn't at all the goofy nerd people thought he was.
CANDY RANDALL Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness.
JEFFREY FRY I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Ninte...
ZACHARY LEVI Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity...
TOM WOLFE Happy is the person who finds fault with himself instead of finding fault with others.
PROPHET MUHAMMAD P.B.U.H I embrace the Nerd.
CLAY AIKEN In polo, you jump on a horse and you play. To play tennis, you have to train every day. It's you...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
LOUIS C. K. One had both legs blown off. He has no legs. Another was in a tank going along, or in a jeep, and hi...
ANNALISA HODGKINS Congratulations. Your official super-nerd badge is in the mail.
RACHEL VINCENT I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
SIA Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such n...
MOBY One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern ner...
WILL SELF He really gets himself up for big meets. He just stepped up real big. When he gets put in a pressure...
JOE KOSMAN I'm a massive 'WoW' nerd, and gamer in general.
KRISTIAN NAIRN Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I'm in the gym three to four days a week, depending on how I'm feeling. With chest, legs and...
ALBERT PUJOLS I watched commercial ave. slide past and there in the distance were the lights of route 18. that was...
JUNOT DíAZ It's great to realize you're not the only nerd on campus and to have fun while playing with buzzers.
CATIE EISEL I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.
PATRICK STUMP 'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myse...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG celebrate the nerd within me.
THE WIZARD OF OZ Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never hav...
OLIVIA MUNN I'm a vocabulary nerd.
SAM TRAMMELL I was a normal American nerd.
JACK HERER I am a nerd among nerds.
KELLY SUE DECONNICK Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE To live in this world "Real World", you should be FUCKING nerd.
DEYTH BANGER There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had co...
GARY YOUNG Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing...
J.G. BALLARD Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools inst...
P. J. O'ROURKE My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ...
TODD RUNDGREN Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. He had the two wards of the fucking Marshal of the fucking Southern Pr...
ILONA ANDREWS He was catching up with the two suspects, ... When he caught up with them, Bryan Good turned around ...
WAYNE ANDERSON Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets h...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm not a nerd, but life forced me to act as one
SAEED AWAD I'm such a closeted nerd.
CASSIE SCERBO That's what I would call a nerd.
TIFFANY SHLAIN The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd.
ROBERT LEWIS He is coming to play in India I am feeling very proud. He is selected in the England cricket team. H...
HARI SINGH With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BENCHLEY He was my perfect alter ego. He was in control, and I never was. He was cool, and I was truly a nerd...
HENRY WINKLER I can see why you like it here, there's a thin layer of nerd all over everything.
CASSANDRA CLARE Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that ner...
JOHN GREEN At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I ...
DAN STEVENS I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing &#...
DEREK MEARS I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.
NICOLE ANDERSON It's hard to think he is still only 21 years old. You've got to be impressed with him on the field a...
BRIAN SCHNEIDER I've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I'...
RONDA ROUSEY She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him i...
HERMANN HESSE I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
BJöRK The world has accepted hard-core fans' argument. Batman, this children's character who dresses up in...
GLEN WELDON Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a...
MILA KUNIS He has basically unhittable stuff. But he helps himself with the way he plays defense. He gets off t...
GREG DOBBS It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet ...
IRVIN MAYFIELD Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come acros...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In basketball country, well, we have the pivot so what he does is leaves his thumb back and he pivot...
HANS STURM It seems to happen sudden—a fighter gets good. He gets easy and graceful. He learns how to save hi...
CLIFFORD ODETS I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself...
BRANDON SANDERSON Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine i...
ALEX KAPRANOS I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.
KIOWA GORDON I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I&#...
ATTICUS SHAFFER When I woke up, I was on the banks of the nearby river, about 20 meters from our house. I couldn't m...
FITRIAN ARDIANSYAH I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one.
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