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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.

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 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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I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.
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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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Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me.
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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 don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.
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The fact is I'm very self-similar.
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I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.
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I'm not a particularly religious person, but that feeling of getting transmissions from someplace else, even if it's from your own consciousness, is very, very real. To me, at least.
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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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