John Hodgman Quotes
People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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My best friend is my husband.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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Sometimes the media twists your words, and they say things to get a headline, and it's not necessarily what came out of your mouth, and they take things out of context 90 percent of the time. But I guess - any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
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From Public Radio International, there's 'PRI's The World', which is the States looking out at the rest of the globe. Elsewhere, the 'Global News Podcast' from the BBC World Service offers something similar.
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I do live a decently healthy life.
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Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it.
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
