John Hodgman Quotes

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

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• In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

  

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  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Rap

• I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

  

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  • Life
  • World
  • Movie

• When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

  

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  • World
  • Death

• Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

  

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  • People
  • Book

• Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

  

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  • People
  • Community
  • Encouraging

• Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

  

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  • People
  • Football

• Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

  

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  • Earth
  • Friend

• What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.

  

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  • Past

• I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

  

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  • Culture
  • Interesting

• I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'

  

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  • Good

• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

  

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• Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

  

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  • People

• As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

  

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  • Sports

• While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

  

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  • Life
  • World

• I am not an Internet superstar.

  

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• There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

  

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  • American
  • Serious

• When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.

  

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  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

  

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  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

  

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  • Why
  • Society
  • Stop

• My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

  

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  • Writing
  • Superhero

• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  

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  • World
  • Believe
  • Space

• The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

  

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  • Important
  • Book

• The silhouette was named for Etienne de Silhouette, the notoriously stingy finance minister for Louis XV, who ironically was himself incapable of casting a shadow, due to lycanthropy.

  

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  • Shadow

• Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an ability to find and nurture authors.

  

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