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 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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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.
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No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.
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For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.
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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.
