Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.
John Green
Related I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... ED HELMS There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearte... JESSE ANDREWS I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other ... CHRIS HARDWICK Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a... MILA KUNIS Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi... J.D. SALINGER We are getting ready for next season as most of the girls are participating in softball or track thi... LORENZO JONES A nerd can call another nerd a nerd. TRAVIS SCOTT And the thing about nerd culture being mainstream culture now means that there's no place to just be... RAINBOW ROWELL I'm not a nerd, but life forced me to act as one SAEED AWAD Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big... RACHEL PERRY The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-close... NATALIE MERCHANT Girls are only complicated because they don't want to explain but they still want to be understood EMILY THOMAS A lot of personal stuff. There are some Swedish guys and girls that listen and do not understand exa... GUSTAV EJSTES Guys don't reverse-relate. Guys are like, 'You're hot. Shut up.' Girls reverse-relate. They think a ... AARON KARO celebrate the nerd within me. THE WIZARD OF OZ I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year... LELE PONS Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd. MAX BROOKS Some girls are so hot, they make me proud of God. ANDREW THOMAS WELBORN Girls are the worst because they hide better. And guys never tell you about the chicks, especially i... JOE INTISO I’m not really a nerd; I only aspire to be one. GILLIAN FLYNN It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie?... ZACH GALLIGAN Why do all the hot girls want the jocks and the good boys? We losers are the ones that need you. HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK We've talked about the importance of coming out strong and ready to play. The way we started the sec... JANIE MCCARTHY It's a very tough meet for the girls. I feel the guys have a slight advantage. It's a much faster pa... GREG SNYDER I've heard a lot of girls complaining there are not a lot of guys to date. DEAN LUSK I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a mu... MAYER HAWTHORNE Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay. ALEXA VEGA Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa). JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA Reports are that it has already outsold Paris Hilton is some areas. MARK MOELLER There are some hot girls in Vancouver. CHASKE SPENCER There are three things most men love but never understand; females, girls and women. VIKRANT PARSAI Guys can't tell girls what to do. That's an unspoken rule. Learn that now and you'll be way ahead of... TRAVIS THRASHER Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently. MICHAEL GURIAN There's no name-calling because someone missed a question. Boys don't pick on each other as bad if g... KRISTI ANDERSON let’s face it: Most girls are annoying. I mean, most humans are annoying, so it’s not specific t... JESSE ANDREWS Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages tha... MARK TWAIN I'm pleased with where the girls are at. We never beat Hilton Head, Prep or Beaufort last year in bo... DANA HOUSE If you saw these ladies in front of me, you would understand they're not petite. That's not in a bad... BILL TAVARES You're a nerd. TRACEY WARD People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls a... CARROLL O'CONNOR Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are differ... MARIE LU Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise MAYA ANGELOU I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd. BELLA HEATHCOTE We don't want the guys to think we're male-bashing or that we're thinking that guys should pay all g... BEYONCE KNOWLES In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't... CRAIG GROESCHEL Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be... JOHN GREEN Girls want to do what older guys are doing, or they want to be cool. Girls do feel a lot of stress ?... MEGHAN WARD For kids and teens, especially, chocolate milk would be an ideal recovery beverage because research ... CHRISTINE CAMARILLO I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind o... JOHN HAWKES One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's social... NEAL STEPHENSON Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never hav... OLIVIA MUNN Being a girl today can be tough. That's why 'Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul' is so amazing. Each s... CATHERINE LEE Boys and girls are not the same. TUCKER CARLSON [We are] prepared to do what it takes in any country that has not yet realized the value of educatin... CAROL BELLAMY Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying ... WALE I embrace the Nerd. CLAY AIKEN Most of the girls are playing their first year of ball ever, and today girls were actually connectin... KATHY MENARD Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. MAYA ANGELOU When I do club appearances, it's girls who come up and get their photos taken with me, not just ... GEORGIA SALPA Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�... JOHN GREEN I do believe that models should be older now. You tell girls to go and catwalk and be sexy, but some... SHANINA SHAIK Sometimes younger girls are a little easier to teach, because the older girls have developed bad hab... GARY APODACA You are what you are, and what you are is not me! ANTHONY T. HINCKS Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em... KATHRYN HAHN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU It's great to realize you're not the only nerd on campus and to have fun while playing with buzzers. CATIE EISEL Hotness is uniqueness and just being yourself - that's hot. RYAN CABRERA There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and... HEATHER GRAHAM Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The prob... CARROLL BRYANT Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... ... CHRIS BROWN Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking. RAKUL PREET SINGH We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so wil... BOB AINSWORTH I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't p... NIA VARDALOS I'm a vocabulary nerd. SAM TRAMMELL I was a normal American nerd. JACK HERER I am a nerd among nerds. KELLY SUE DECONNICK I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. JUDAH FRIEDLANDER It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of blood... PENELOPE LIVELY 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 prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi... LEONARDO DICAPRIO Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of ... ZAYN MALIK I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. MAYA ANGELOU And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile ego... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Our girls are not public figures. LAURA BUSH It was really interesting because most of the things at Girl Scouts are for the little girls and sel... BURGANDY NEWELL I'm such a closeted nerd. CASSIE SCERBO Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the ... WANDA JACKSON Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Intern... ADAM DEVINE Being a nerd really pays off sometimes. KEN JENNINGS That's what I would call a nerd. TIFFANY SHLAIN We must tell girls their voices are important. MALALA YOUSAFZAI Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Gi... GILLIAN FLYNN Bodybuilding saved my life because I overcame the nerd stage. I got picked on. I was fascinated with... LOU FERRIGNO The group began by making comments that the victim looked like a geek or a nerd. ROBERT LEWIS That always baffles me. I think young girls look up to people who are older than they are, because y... AMANDA BYNES Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was. BEVERLY MITCHELL Girls are so strange. If another man called me a bitch and spanked me, it would not end in giggles. C.J. ROBERTS I could see girls who are not used to it having some issues with that. BRUCE WASSERMAN
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