John Hodgman Quotes - Page 2

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• John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.

  John Hodgman

  Team, John Wilkes Booth, Satan

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• We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

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  Media, Teeth, Keyboards

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• You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

  John Hodgman

  Team, Hands, Winner

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• Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

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  Smart, Dust, Criticism

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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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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  Caring, Talking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

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  Adventure, Careers, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

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  Humble, Personality, Degrees

  Intwrview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

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  Hurt, Cult Of Personality, Domes

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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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.

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  Lucky, Lists, Come Up

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

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  May, Would Be, Fallacy

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• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

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  Book, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.

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  Jobs, Interesting, Lucky

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

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  Couple, Fall, Years

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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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  Jobs, Tv Shows, Tvs

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.

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  Done, Hard

  John Hodgman (2012). “More Information Than You Require”, p.268, Penguin

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• I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

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  Moxie, Bottles, Soda

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.

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  Moving, Eye, Forever

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.192, Penguin

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• I am not an Internet superstar.

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  Superstar, Internet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

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  Values

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I don't really collect anything. I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

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  Mean, Moxie, Pieces

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.

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  Meaningful, Years, Brain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

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  Sight, Doe, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

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  Real, Hair, People

  "The Off-Topic Interview: John Hodgman". Interview with Steven Shehori, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2011.

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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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  People, Doe

  "John Hodgman, part two: geeks vs. jocks in all walks of life". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.

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  Book, Writing, People

  "Q&A: John Hodgman on Perfecting the Illusion of Expertise". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. September 22, 2008.

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