John Hodgman Quotes
One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I think I need security.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.
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One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
