John Hodgman Quotes

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

John Hodgman

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• I would like to have my gun for protection.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Like
  • Gun
  • Protection

• I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Mirror

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Affection
  • Often
  • Mental

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Dream

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Best

• I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Eyes

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Lesbian

• I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Future
  • Political
  • Changed

• We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Dad
  • Feel
  • Years

• He's learning me all of his experience.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Experience
  • Learning

• The urge to run, the restlessness.The heart of stone I sometimes get.The things I've done for foolish pride.The me that's never satisfied.That face that's in the mirror.When I don't like what I see.I guess that's just the cowboy in me.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Pride

• Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  

  Don Adams
  • Serious

• In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Society
  • Rest
  • Teachers

• At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • Real
  • Ends
  • Keys

• One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Reason
  • Religion
  • Civilization

• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

  

  John Hodgman