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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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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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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I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.
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I thought it'd be cool to start my own university, in a way.
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People are trading distance for dollars.
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You see the button with the picture of the guy with the tray, and you push it, AND HE ARRIVES WITH A SANDWICH! ...And you think: 'Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land.'
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The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.
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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.
