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.
Zach LaVine
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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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.
Natascha McElhone
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens
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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.
Zooey Deschanel
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
Patricia Kaas
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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.
Gabe Newell
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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.
Banks
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
Randeep Hooda
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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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.
Pankaj Mishra
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
Adam Peaty
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith
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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
Bella Abzug
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
Ian McShane
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
Kate Millett
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I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.
Tyler, The Creator
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I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today: Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. Don't start a scene where two people are talking about jumping out of a plane. Start the scene having already jumped. If you're scared, look into your partner's eyes — you will feel better.
Amy Poehler
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My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
John Hodgman