John Hodgman Quotes
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.
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No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
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The Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.
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I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
