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Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me.

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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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Comedian
Film Actor
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Brookline
Massachusetts
John Kellogg Hodgman
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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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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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I would definitely make eggs for the rest of my life if I could.
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I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.
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I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.
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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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Just a small-scale cult of personality, maybe raise a geodetic dome out in western Massachusetts and make people wear jumpsuits and give all their possessions to me.
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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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To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
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There is a need for expertise, for real expertise. I'm not doing much to help that cause, but I think we can find the healthy balance between intellectualism and anti-intellectualism. Jocks and nerds may come together, I believe it.
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