John Hodgman Quotes
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
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Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
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I guess those of us who have been with NASA … kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
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It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land - born was the leader of man. All going down to see the Lord Jesus.
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I just have to keep working hard.
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Trump considers himself such a virile example of masculinity that he's qualified to serve as the ultimate arbiter of femininity. He relishes judging women on the basis of their looks, which he seems to believe amounts to the sum of their character.
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Christmas is over and Business is Business.
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Is the purpose of free elections to allow the most clever and vicious person to aggregate power, or is the purpose of free elections to enable the American people to have a serious conversation about their country's future and try to find both a policy and a personality that they think will carry to them that better future?
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We're bar room buddies and we're the best kind, nobody messes with that friend of mine. Chug-a-lug-a-lug-a-lugga, bar room buddy of mine.
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We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.
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Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
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Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.
