John Hodgman Quotes
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
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If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
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Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
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Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.
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I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
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Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought — so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master.
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We are the choices we make.
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It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization.
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I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on.
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My fame is due to broadcast television.
