John Hodgman Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“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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“When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.”
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“My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.”
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“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. t's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”
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“A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.”
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“As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.”
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“Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.”
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“Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.”
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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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“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”
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“I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.”
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“If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.”
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“Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.”
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“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.”
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“A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.”
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“First of all, I wish I could grow a beard.”
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“The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.”
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“What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.”
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“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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“Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.”
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“A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.”
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“All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.”
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“Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.”
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“Tonally, there was no discussion; I just don’t know any other way to do it. I don’t want to make people feel bad, and I don’t want to make their problems into a joke. I do love telling people when they’re right and wrong, but for the most part, it was always going to be about real fights where people have a real difference of opinion and a real dispute. I want to make jokes, but I also want to make a decision that is fair.”
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“This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.”
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“This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.”
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“For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.”
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“I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.”
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