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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 say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
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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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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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To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
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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 am not an Internet superstar.
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