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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I played basketball; I ran track and also played soccer. I think that I am naturally athletic.
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Growing up, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were the players I looked up to - and Carlos Tevez when he was at the club.
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When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.
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I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
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My fame is due to broadcast television.
