John Hodgman Quotes
While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.
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Second novels are bears. As are other people's expectations for them. I think taking the time you need with the second book is key. Writers spend years and years on their first novels and then are often expected to turn out a second at warp speed, a recipe for failure.
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In America, quite often, for people from a certain economic position two choices become very evident as to their adult life. One is crime, one is the military. And it is quite often that some people choose one or the other, their options not being as many as someone from a higher income.
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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
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While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
