John Hodgman Quotes
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.
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For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.
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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
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We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
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The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
