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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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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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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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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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I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.
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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 stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust. A weird thought, but everything in front of me starts to seem unreal, like a gust of wind could blow it all away.
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Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn't choose rain only for bad people.
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I'm happy; I'm a happy person.
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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.
