Quotes About Community

As soon as I heard the term 'comedy nerd,' I'd hoped there was a lot of them.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.

Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend.

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

I was an athlete, but I was also a nerd. And so I didn't really fit in with the jocks because I was a nerd, and I didn't fit in with the nerds because I was a jock.

Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

There's a lot of closeted nerds out there.

We were the choir nerds.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

I always enjoyed school, and I enjoyed being focused on learning - and I know that sounds nerdy, but there were so many wonderful elements of going to school with just girls. I wouldn't brush my hair.

I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

America used to have a strong 'moral safety net' for its people. Today that net is badly frayed, not only because families are disintegrating but also because the church doesn't play the same role that it once did in many Americans' lives.

I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.

Most Americans get that there is a need for a safety net in our country, and we support that safety net.

In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.

Long before 2020, many Americans were in the position of patching their own safety net and acting as their own city hall.

Twente have probably the best fans in the Netherlands and the fans stay behind their team in both good and bad times.

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

People care about others in their immediate network.