Quotes About Acceptance

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in.

God love Neil Patrick Harris - how great is that. People grew up with him; they go, 'Oh it's him, it's that little boy and he just happens to be gay. How great for him!' The more of those kind of examples that happen, the better it's going to be.

Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

At the end of the day nepotism has been there it's always going to be there don't expect it to change.

In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.

A nerd can call another nerd a nerd.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

I don't like to say 'dork' and 'nerd' and things like that because I think that everyone is cool in their own right.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.

If you're a nerd, just be a nerd. That's way better than a nerd who's trying to be a hipster. And if you are going to tell jokes, don't direct them at other people. Not only is it not funny, but it's also mean.

I still feel like a nerd.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

You can't play a hobbit if you're not prepared to be a part of nerd culture.

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

We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.

Playing the nerd isn't necessarily the most ego-boosting role.

This idea of the geek or the nerd, all that person really is - and I would consider myself one - is someone who is not ashamed of liking what they enjoy.