John Hodgman Quotes
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.
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Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
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When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape... the bones bend.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.
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Night raids are only the first step in the American detention process in Afghanistan. Suspects are usually sent to one of a series of prisons on U.S. military bases around the country. There are officially nine such jails, called Field Detention Sites in military parlance.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
