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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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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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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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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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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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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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 now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be...
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
