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The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers. (Chris Hardwick)
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic. View quote
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Nerds get caught up in minutiae, because there is a tremendous and fulfilling sense of control in understanding every single detail of a thing more than any other living creature. View quote
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I feel like so much of why I sort of want to work in television is so that people know to come see me live. View quote
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I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it. View quote
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I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. View quote
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A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner. View quote
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While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning. View quote
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Comment threads are the new therapy for people. They just go and post the worst things they can think of because they feel bad, and then other people start attacking them, and then they attack back. View quote
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Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic. View quote
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto. (Chris Hardwick)
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into. View quote
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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work. View quote
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I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school. View quote
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I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks. View quote
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I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying. View quote
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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy. View quote
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Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff. View quote
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We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy. View quote
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I do find some of the meanest, most exclusionary people are the nerds. And they rebel against other nerds! What are you doing? As much as I love nerds and the nerd movement, the nerd-on-nerd violence is really bad. A lot of times, nerds are the meanest ones online. And also, the trolling can be very extensive because they're smart. View quote
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I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world. (Chris Hardwick)
We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. View quote
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I like listening to people talk about things that they love. They get to express things they don't normally get to express. View quote
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Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s. View quote
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Comic-Con is interesting because there's so much going on at once, it's literally impossible to do everything. You need clones and some sort of hoverboard so you can surf over the crowd of packed-in nerds. View quote
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