Lloyd Blankfein Quotes

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

I could never dream of being cool.

I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.

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.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

I always wanted to be where the cool was because I didn't think I was cool. But music was cool.

I've never been cool.

I think I was a pretty normal kid. I wasn't the prom queen, but I wasn't a freak, either.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would change how liked I was. It was that kind of Pygmalion story. I think, ultimately that's probably why I became interested in fashion, its transformative power, and how it can change your identity.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal.