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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.
John Hodgman
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John Hodgman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: June 3
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John Kellogg Hodgman
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I would be good for maybe not the center square but an upper square on 'Hollywood Squares.'
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It was inevitable that in the proliferation of media and media channels and the natural debasing of authority that comes when you make an expert of someone who knows a few things and can be on television and you put the word expert underneath them, that is to say me, then eventually the very concept of expertise itself would become meaningless
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Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
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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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I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.
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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.
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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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Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.
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Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
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You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss.
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I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'
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I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.
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Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
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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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Only the nerds will save the earth.
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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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I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
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I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination what a hassle that would be!
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I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
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