John Hodgman Quotes
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.
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I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.
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My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.
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Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
