John Hodgman Quotes
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.
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To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
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Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.
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When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
