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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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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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 don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I've been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I'm not, I'll get stuck in front of it.
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I've done some films that, on paper, were really interesting and special. And for some reason, when they got on screen, it just didn't work. Well, I didn't get to watch the film before I decided to do it.
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Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
